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Getting the 3Rs message out

12/8/2023

Since our September livestream the Accord working group is getting the climate rescue message out to MPs, NGOs and the public across a number of strategies.

December Letition - getting MPs up to speed

The Letition is a new platform generates a PDF to send to your Federal MP on a monthly climate-related issue. The December Letition asks your MP to meet with you on the 3Rs/climate rescue.

To send a climate rescue Letition to your MP, please 1) follow this link, 2) select the December option, 3) fill out your details and add any of your own words, 4) receive the generated pdf and 5) email to your MP using their address provided in the pdf. Then 6) ask your circles to do the same.

Generate a (December) 3Rs Letition for your MP

Getting the E-NGOs up to speed

Many politicians look to the big environmental NGOs (E-NGOs) for guidance on climate. Unfortunately, none of the E-NGOs advocate for stopping and reversing global warming. For example, the Climate Council advocates for reduce, which is just one piece of the puzzle to slow warming. The Climate Council does not advocate for remove and none of the E-NGOs advocate for repair (active cooling).

The Climate Rescue Accord working group has begun contacting Environmental NGOs asking them to advocate for all 3Rs. If you are a member or have a relationship with the Climate Council, ACF, WWF or FoE, please ask them to advocate for the full suite of actions required to stop and reverse warming.

Taking it to the streets

Rob Bates from Vote Climate One will be handing out Climate Rescue/3Rs pamphlets in Melbourne. Look out for a Grim Reaper in the vicinity of Elizabeth St.

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The Climate Rescue Accord Livestream, 20 September 2023

12/8/2023

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On September 20, the Accord working group ran a livestream on the 3Rs. Big thanks to:

Julie Byford OAM of the Women’s Environmental Leadership Association (WELA) for emceeing.
David Spratt from the National Centre for Safe Climate Restoration (Breakthrough) for his presentation on the state of climate and the 3Rs. (David’s slides are available on this page).

Eighty six attended on the night. Based on responses these attendees represented political parties and climate groups as well as MP’s offices. The 54-minute video is still generating hits.

Here are links to the main sections of the video:

1:56 Welcome and intro by Julie Byford OAM
6:58 Presentation on the 3Rs by David Spratt
28:40 The Climate Rescue Accord working group on purpose and goals
38:11 Q&A

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About the Climate Rescue Accord

12/8/2023

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The Climate Rescue Accord started last June as a conversation on climate policy between individuals from different minor parties. The resulting Accord working group committed to:

Pursuing what was required to stop and reverse warming with the ultimate goal of restoring a safe climate.
Building a comprehensive suite of policy options that underpin the 3Rs.
Reaching out to other parties, independents and environmental NGOs.

The 3Rs
The Accord working group understands that the path to stopping and reversing warming is the 3Rs:

Reduce fast to zero emissions.
Remove Drawdown excess greenhouse gases to reduce concentrations.
Repair - Active cooling - urgent R&D into immediate cooling strategies such as solar radiation management. We have left it too long for Reduce and Remove alone to prevent climate catastrophe, even at emergency speed.

The Accord’s goals are:

Hold global average temperature rise to the minimum possible, ensuring 2°C is not breached and temperatures return below 0.5°C.
Set a course to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations to preindustrial (safe) levels, based on credible scientific evidence.

Minimum demands across the 3Rs 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)

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 industrial methods of greenhouse gas sequestration.

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.

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