Reflect on the qualities of a climate leader

Vision, innovation, consultation, transparency and humanity. These are just a few of the qualities of good leadership displayed by the Climate Changers.

Complete our questionnaire to reflect on your own capacity for climate leadership, and the ways you can show up as a leader in your own life and work.

Fix our national
environment law

Climate change is the biggest threat Australia’s natural environment faces. It puts at risk our complex ecosystems, damages habitats, and threatens iconic natural places.

However, our national environment law doesn’t directly address climate change, which means it isn’t adequately protecting our treasured natural places.

Join the Climate Council and Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action in calling on the Federal Government to strengthen Australia’s national environment law to include climate change.

Divest your super from fossil fuels

Super is an enormous pool of money worth over $3.5 trillion. To put that into perspective, just 7.2% of Australia’s superannuation would be enough to fund a transition to 100% renewable energy in Australia.

Yet, our super is funding the climate crisis, with an estimated $140 billion of Australians’ retirement savings financing climate destruction through the expansion of coal, oil and gas.

Moving your super to an ethical future fund such as Future Super is a quick and easy way to stop investing in fossil fuels and start investing in climate solutions.

Start a climate conversation

From Climate Changers’ Tim Flannery and Greg Bourne to CEO and Founder Amanda McKenzie, our friends at the Climate Council have their fair share of bona fide climate leaders. They have created communication guides to help community leaders, organisations and professionals to effectively communicate about climate change and solutions.

Starting a conversation about climate change and solutions with your friends, colleagues and community is a great way to step up as a climate leader and inspire others on their journey.

Electrify your home, vehicles and appliances

Australia has the opportunity to lead the world with electrification. We are the first nation where using all electric, zero emission appliances and vehicles will save every home money, and we have access to the cheapest electricity in the world — our abundant rooftop solar — which can electrify everything.

The best way to run your home — for your wallet and for the climate — is to have all electric appliances and cars powered by clean electricity. It’s also how we’ll have the biggest impact on climate this decade.

Next time you’re up for a new car or need to replace your water heater, choose electric.

Stand with Torres Strait Islander peoples

Zenadh Kes (the Torres Strait Islands and surrounding seas) is home to Traditional Owners who have lived with a deep connection to land, sea, sky and culture for over 60,000 years. Torres Strait Islanders are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, with advancing seas threatening homes, water supplies and sacred sites.

Torres Strait Islander peoples are calling on the Australian Government for resources to protect their island homes from climate damage, and to limit emissions to 1.5 degrees under the Paris Agreement.

An important part of being a climate leader is amplifying the voices of First Nations peoples and supporting those on the frontlines of climate change.

Drive climate action at work

Companies are critical to climate action. They have the power to rapidly reduce emissions, mobilise significant resources, and often define the political space for climate policy around the world.

WorkforClimate is on a mission to accelerate climate action using the most powerful tool a business has: the people who work within it. They’re looking out for climate leaders who want to harness their power to turn their companies into climate champions from the inside out. No reference or sustainability experience required.

Join WorkforClimate’s community and learn how to take the lead on accelerating your company’s decarbonisation.

Support bushfire survivors

Bushfire-impacted people are rising from the ashes and using their lived experience to highlight the links between climate change and increasingly dangerous bushfires – in the media, through advocacy with our elected leaders, and in court.

Donate to support this important work.

Join the Environmental Accelerator 

Climate Changers is an Environmental Accelerator film, which means it is one of a cohort of environmental films supported by Documentary Australia to maximise its social impact. The program’s aim is to increase awareness and action on pressing environmental issues across a slate of films and issue areas.

Join the movement to learn about more films for action and ways to get involved.

Host a screening

Hosting a screening is a powerful way to bring people together and start a conversation about how we can all show up as climate leaders and take action.

Register your interest in hosting a corporate, community or educational screening to ensure this vital film is seen by those who need to need to see it.

Share your thoughts

A key part of using Climate Changers as a tool for change is understanding how it impacts audiences.

Take our survey and let us know what you thought of the film and how you think it could be used to drive change.

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