Climate Communities Alliance
We are people whose communities have been (and continue to be) hit hard by floods, storms, fires, heat, and sea level rise — and we are innovators, with practical and visionary ideas for real solutions that start local.
Our alliance includes people from Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait), the Northern Rivers, the South Coast NSW, Kangaroo Island, Brisbane and Melbourne.
We are leaders or connectors in our families or communities. Our alliance includes Traditional Owners who speak for deep cultural connection to lands, waters and animals. We are young volunteer firefighters and first responders. We are people living with disability who have survived floods. Some of us rent in hot suburbs, and deal with climate impacts in our workplaces. Some of us have lost our homes to fires. And all of us want to see our governments embrace a community-led approach to recovery and climate action.
If you or your community has been impacted by climate change, we would love you to join us.
Join our alliance and support the call for community-led recovery and faster climate action. We are stronger together.
What Our Community Supports
Centre First Nations people and caring for country
Climate solutions and adaptation plans must centre, respect, and uphold First Nations sciences, self-determination, cultural heritage, land rights, expertise in caring for Country (to make everyone safer), community connections and deep cultural knowledge.
Put communities at the heart of decision making
Trust and listen to people in communities already affected and most impacted. Follow our leadership and codesign solutions with us. Value our place-based insights, expertise and leadership. Co-design means resources and seats at the table, not one off consultation.
Back and fund community-led solutions
Communities need practical and accessible funding and resources for community-led solutions that are just, inclusive and meet local needs. Resourcing communities directly avoids waste. We’ll put community, culture, connection and local knowledge at the heart. Actions to prevent, prepare for and recover from climate damage should benefit whole communities, not just individuals or industry.
Stop pollution making impacts worse for more communities
Coal and gas polluters are making heat, floods, sea level rise, fires and storms worse. Prevention is better than cure. Protecting communities means stopping the problem at its source. And corporations with huge profits from polluting should pay for climate damage, not communities.
“There’s a saying back home, ‘We are many but together we fly as one’. Now with this new alliance, I think we can make one voice, one heart, one mind- show them that we mean business.”
