climate action

Climate change is the defining issue of our time, demanding an informed, urgent, and unified response to safeguard our common home. Until then, the Climate Council is steadfast in its commitment to leading that charge.

We check in with Hollie Kerwin, who was named the 2022 Emerging Leader on Climate Action at the Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards.

Women leading urgent climate action for COP28 & beyond. Join the movement for change, amplifying women’s voices and ambitious agendas.

Women are disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis, and yet they’re often the first to take action when disasters strike. 

19-year-old climate advocate Anjali Sharma has launched a campaign with Senator David Pocock to legislate a duty of care to young people.

Climate activist Deanna “Violet” Coco’s 15-month jail term imposed last December has been quashed by a District Court Judge.

We all know that the climate crisis is also a health and social crisis. But what the research behind TheClimateLoad report confirms is that the climate crisis is also gendered. Climate action is a feminist issue. 

If we want to see urgent and equitable climate action, we must create more opportunities for young women to be part of these conversations

While the catalysts for their careers in climate action vary, these women are making big impacts on Australia’s future. 

Australia has signed an international pledge to equal pay, leadership and opportunity for women in the clean energy sector by 2030.

The Queensland Indigenous Women Rangers Network recieves $1.8 million in “Revive Our Oceans” category of Prince Williams’ Earthshot Prize.

The big news of COP27 was agreement to establish a fund for ‘loss and damage’. But many lamented the summit’s overall outcome, saying it falls short of a sufficient response to the climate crisis.