At its annual conference on Saturday, the Nature Conservation Council of NSW passed unanimously the following motions which I had moved on behalf of the Sutherland Shire Environment Centre (an NCC member group):

That the NCC take action on Climate Change by:

  1. acknowledging that the climate crisis has reached the level of a state of emergency; and
  2. directing its climate campaign to the goal of restoring a safe climate by publicly advocating emergency action to
    a. reduce greenhouse gas emissions to near zero as fast as humanly possible, and
    b. actively draw down atmospheric carbon to cool the planet.

This conference calls on the NCC to:

  1. support Al Gore's challenge for the USA to reach 100% carbon free electricity within 10 years;
  2. work with other Conservation Councils across the country to build a national campaign with similar "100% in 10 years" demands for Australia; and
  3. advocate for this goal to be the "ask" for future Walk Against Warming events.

The NCC also adopted a new climate change policy (updating its1992 policy) with this as its first principle:

The world is facing a climate emergency and must respond with genuine emergency action to restore a safe climate for all generations and all species.

Jonathan Doig
Sutherland Climate Action Network
Sutherland Shire Environment Centre