climate action
A climate of change toolkit for climate action groups
A useful new collection of resources especially developed for CAGs. Includes resources on advocacy and campaigning, media, networking, event management, and strategies and plans.
Solar festivals and climate bills: Comparing NGO climate change campaigns in the UK and Australia
Nina Hall and Ros Taplin’s study compares climate change campaigns by selected environmental non-government organisations (NGOs) in the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia in 2006. It describes the variety of campaigns and examines the conditions under which...
Make Copenhagen a starting point
How can the popular movements involved in climate change become a social movement for building a sustainable society? Tord Bjork argues there will be no agreement in Copenhagen with substantial content that will bring about changes necessary for stopping
Slides from the tCA FoE forums in Sydney Brisbane and Melbourne slides
Our ‘Building the Climate Movement Online’ action research project culminated in a series of workshops. Here are our slides from the workshops.
Power Shifting Towards Tomorrow
Anna Rose reflects how, in 2005, students from the University of Sydney began a campaign to make their university’s Administration clean up their act on climate change. The campaign, called Green Campus Now, called on the Vice Chancellor to commit to purchasing...
Climate action: a campaign manual for greenhouse solutions
“The word academic is synonymous for irrelevant”, declared Saul Alinsky, the influential Chicago activist-educator. A notable exception to Alinsky’s rule is Mark Diesendorf, author of ‘Climate Action: A campaign manual for greenhouse...
Friends of Earth Climate Justice Campaign: for the greater good
Nancy Entwhistle. A study of the reframing of the climate change campaign and the notion of distributive justice.
Revolution or inch by inch? Campaign approaches on climate change by environmental groups
Nina Lansbury Hall and Ros Taplin (2006). The question of whether NGOs are undertaking an ‘incremental’ or ‘revolutionary’ approach, or any other dichotomy is too simple: none of the NGOs appear to intentionally favour one type of strategy. Presented at the 9th annual...
Confronting Climate Change
Nina Lansbury Hall and Ros Taplin (2006): A review of theoretical perspectives on environmental NGOs and their campaign effectiveness, Presented at the Ecopolitics XVI conference, Griffith University, July 4-6, 2005.
Community organising for climate action
James Whelan (2012) describes how parts of the environment and climate change movements are adopting the techniques and logic of community organising. This challenges them to learn new habits of political analysis and engagement, and unlearn old ones.
tCA Climate Action Research Proposal (2007)
Our proposal for the 2007-2009 action research project to learn more about effective community organising for climate action
Effective meetings for climate action groups
A 2 page guide to help climate action groups off to a good start with tips on meeting procedures and roles, setting realistic objectives and balancing group maintenance with campaign tasks.
Influencing climate policy: The effectiveness of Australian NGO campaigns
Nina Lansbury Hall and Ros Taplin (2006) evaluate the effectiveness of Australian environmental non-government organisations’ (ENGO) campaigns on climate change, and examines their influence on climate-related policies in Australia. This research clarifies the role of...
Steps to climate justice [tCA process guide]
Interactive exercise for climate change activists and action groups, incorporating critical path analysis and facilitating political analysis.