PURPOSE
The purpose of the Climate Rescue Accord is to help initiate the required action to stop global heating, maximise survival, minimise suffering, and set a course to restore a safe climate so people, animals, ecosystems can flourish.
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The Accord is also a platform to leverage required action from state, federal and international governments; a vision for which minor parties and independents can unite. 

Commensurate action to stop and reverse global heating requires the 3Rs: Reduce, Remove and Reflect, as outlined below.

The Climate Rescue Accord's minimum demands across the 3Rs, Reduce, Remove and Reflect, are:
Reduce (Fast to zero emissions)

• Develop evidence-based roadmaps to near zero across all sectors for emergency implementation including energy and mining, transport, consumption and manufacturing, agriculture, land use, and construction. This includes:
  • Stop fossil fuel expansion.
  • Phase out fossil fuel use and extraction, including Scope 3 emissions and emissions resulting from fossil fuel exports.
  • Prevent and phase out sources of methane release.

Remove (Drawdown to reduce greenhouse concentrations, not provide offsets)

• Stop deforestation and land use change that releases CO2 and reduces sequestration potential and support industry change that makes large areas of land available for revegetation.
• Sequester CO2 using natural means, such as rewilding.
• Facilitate urgent R&D into direct air capture of greenhouse gases.​

Reflect/Repair (Active cooling)

• Facilitate urgent R&D ​and international cooperation in the area of immediate cooling strategies:
  • to compensate for the loss of the aerosol masking effect as we reduce fossil fuel emissions
  • to actively cool until reduce and remove achieve a safe climate on their own.

*Policy working groups will address elements of the 3Rs. Specific workshop topics are yet to be announced.

The Climate Rescue Accord Working Group acknowledges the traditional owners across Australia, and pays respect to elders past and present, recognising continuing connections to land, water and culture.

Sovereignty was never ceded.