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Target 1.5 degrees: What are the barriers?
Global Compassion Coalition webinar, 28 February 2024
In early February 2024, scientists at the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service released findings which showed that temperatures across the year 2023 exceeded a 1.5 degree rise above pre-industrial levels.
This was the level at which world leaders had previously pledged to cap global temperature rises. Faced with the latest evidence of the inadequate progress in tackling climate change, we need to understand: what are the barriers to change?
What psychological, logistical, financial, economic, and political challenges stand in the way of us making a huge leap forward in protecting ourselves and our planet from the climate crisis?
These were the topics discussed during Target 1.5 degrees: What are the barriers?, an event hosted by Global Compassion Coalition and featuring nonprofit leader Ciara Byrne alongside WCC’s Dr. Janet Salisbury and Dr. Lynne Reeder.
Meeting the climate crisis inside out
Tues 12 September 2023
If humans are to adequately address the challenge of climate change, then we need to better employ our inner capacities, including the skill of mindfulness & the motivation of compassion.
In September 2023, WCC co-hosted a key forum to discuss the contribution of the science of compassion to resolving our climate crisis.
Authors of the recently released report Reconnection: Meeting the Climate Crisis Inside Out Jamie Bristow and Dr Christine Wamsler were in conversation on the important messages in this report. These messages relate directly to the 11 actions in the Women’s Climate Charter for Change, particularly Action 6: Elevate Compassion and kindness in government.
This webinar was jointly hosted by: Charter for Compassion, Australia; Women’s Climate Congress; Mindfulness Initiative International; Global Compassion Coalition’s Climate and Sustainability Cluster; Compassionate Ballarat; and Let’s Talk Peace Ballarat.
Jamie Bristow is a prominent expert on the application of inner development and contemplative practices in public life. He currently leads policy & advocacy for the Inner Development Goals, emphasising the inner skills and qualities needed for a sustainable transition. For eight years, from 2015 to 2023, Jamie played an instrumental role in the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness, acting as its clerk and serving as Director of the associated policy institute, The Mindfulness Initiative Institute.
Christine Wamsler is a researcher interested in sustainable urban development, climate change, resilience and associated cognitive and material transformation processes. Global trends such as climate change and mental ill-health, the ways in which power emerges and consolidates, and the causes and consequences of the unequal distribution of vulnerabilities and risk, are central to understanding urban challenges
Women Declare Emergency and Raise Climate Ambition Summit
Fri 4 November 2022
A round-the-world online event to raise up women's leadership for action on climate change
The planetary emergency is a triple crisis for climate, people, and nature. It is affecting all of humanity, not just half. Women from all sectors of society across the globe are being impacted and they need to be part of the solution. We can only solve this crisis by working together, men and women together.
SHE Changes Climate and partners held this online Summit on the eve of COP27 with a set of engaging and interactive discussions valuing diversity and raising climate ambition to address the planetary emergency. Women rise by lifting each other. We are also inviting men who are pioneering gender balance and raising climate ambition, to join the discussion and support our campaign.
The Summit was a unique opportunity to connect with political, business and civil society leaders from around the world and unite around our 50:50 vision for a sustainable future.
It was a free, inclusive event across identities and the gender spectrum. Over 1000 people across the 12 hours of the event.
WCC was very pleased to be a collaborating partner with SHE Changes Climate for this summit.
WCC Founder, Janet Salisbury, moderated the first main dialogue session of the event on Policy and Politics:
Policy Dialogue: Transforming political leadership to meet the climate challenge
Friday 4 November, 8.00 – 8.45 pm AEDT/Sydney/Canberra (morning in Europe)
Contributors
Dr Virginia Marshall Wiradjuri Nyemba academic, practising lawyer, leading legal scholar on Indigenous water rights Australia, Board member of the Australian Government Climate Change Authority
Kylie Tink MP Member of Australian Parliament (Independent, North Sydney)
Delphine O Former member of the French National Assembly (2017-19), French Ambassador-at-large for Gender Equality, Secretary General of the Generation Equality Forum (Beijing +25), former member of the French National Assembly (parliament/house of reps)
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, Regional Representative, Shifting the Power Coalition & Pacific Island Feminist Alliance for Climate Justice
We explored women’s leadership in the Australian and Pacific region, including:
What lessons can we learn from the recent national election in Australia which led to a change of government, and the big increase in the number and diversity of women in the Parliament? What message does this send to COP?
The UN finding against the Australian Government in relation to the Torres Strait Islanders — what message does that send to governments everywhere?
How women spearheading climate change response in the Pacific Island nations. See: https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/feature-story/2022/04/women-spearhead-climate-change-response-in-the-south-pacific
And with Delphine we referred to the wider global picture for women’s leadership, including how to build capacity among women to fully participate in global negotiations.
See the SHE Changes Climate website for further details about the work of this group asking for equal representation and urgent action to solve the crisis.
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