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FCAV Adaptation Activators: Call #5

Act on Climate Vic

(Friends of the Earth Melbourne)

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Where are we all based?

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Getting to know each other

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Please share your:

  1. Name & Pronouns
  2. Location: Where do you live in VIC?
  3. Are you with a community org �or here as an individual?
  4. Do you/have you engaged with your MPs and/or media?

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Purpose of Activator calls

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Adaptation not mitigation!

Collaborate together, share resources and learnings, �bring challenges to work �through together with the group

FCAV purpose:

  • learn about, amplify, and action community-led climate adaptation

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Community-led adaptation

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  • Grounded in community knowledge, expertise and priorities

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  • To ensure it fulfills a community’s fundamental needs and keeps everyone in a community safe

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  • Solutions need to be localised to the specific context to ensure they are just & maladaptation avoided

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Participants Agreement

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  • Active participation
  • Personal specialties/touch brought to space
  • Share resources and work doing
  • Give practical advice and suggestions
  • Mute unless talking - hand up to talk first
  • Anything else?

Anything to add to tonight’s agenda?

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Any adaptation related news or events you’d like to share with the group?

Any updates to share?

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  • Engage with local government (councils, community centres)
  • Engage with local media (newspapers, school papers, radio stations) - promote success stories!
  • Engage with other local organisations (stronger together)
  • Talk to others in your community (neighbours, friends) - “I am worried about this, are you too?” (Climate for Change resources: https://www.climateforchange.org.au/climate_conversations)
  • Community visioning / citizen’s assemblies (for eg: at town halls)
  • Through art - display community vision through artwork/s in common space - invite ppl to add to/comment on (show what adaptation would look like /how adaptation = many good things for the community!)
  • Through creative protests
    • chalking / guerilla signage / murals / theatrical performances / art installations

How can we build momentum & consensus on climate adaptation locally?

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  • Funding now will save money later
  • Adaptation also = mitigation / which reduces the cost living, and enriches our lives
  • Only individual solutions will not be enough, it will require a community, society-wide effort
  • Best adaptation also addresses root causes of the issue (structural issues, systemic problems, co-solutions)

Important framing / messaging around adaptation

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  • emails / letters
  • calling
  • in-person meetings
  • social media engagement
  • invite to local event / forum

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Climate for Change resources: https://www.climateforchange.org.au/mpegs_issues

How to engage with your MPs

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  • letter to editors
  • press release
  • personal story
  • invite to action / local event

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Our Letter to Editor resources: will send to you

How to engage with media

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  • Ask questions and listen first - try to understand
  • Find common ground
  • Narrative - allowing people to tell their story is powerful, how can climate adaptation be part of their story?
  • Focus on vision and how people can be part of the solution

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Climate for Change resources: https://www.climateforchange.org.au/download_guide

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Talking to ppl in your community - individuals

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  • Get people to see themselves and how they are impacted
  • Good skills: paraphrasing, summarizing, synthesising
  • Short facilitation guide for facilitating discussions: https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/shortfacilitation

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Climate for Change resources: https://www.climateforchange.org.au/download_guide

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Talking to ppl in your community - groups

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  • AoC’s upcoming Climate Adapt Map
  • a FCAV Facebook group? Whatsapp group?
    • following My Efficient Electric Home’s e.g.
  • joint actions
    • e.g. all meeting MPs / art exhibits

How can we build connection & conversation around climate adaptation in Victoria together?

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  • Resilience Inquiry report available for engaging with local gov/local media
  • Amplify events and projects to our supporter list / via website / Facebook page
  • Come to your community and do a joint event with you - possible road trip around Vic

How can AoC assist you?

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Use the report to help back you up when talking to MPs and media

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  • shares how Vic can & wants to adapt & inspiring e.g.s what community-led climate adaptation looks like
  • Most common thread in submissions is people want more funding for adaptation

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https://www.melbournefoe.org.au/resilience_inquiry_analysed_report

Preview: AoC’s Report on the Climate Resilience Inquiry

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Brainstorm

(in breakouts for 20 min) - pls take notes in the minutes!

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Instead of government consulting community�after they've already created a plan for them, how can we get our communities to come up with their own plans to present to their elected officials? �

  1. How can we hold our own community consultations and practice deep listening our community?
  2. How can we creatively put forward these community visions?

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Report backs / Questions

Share main ideas from your discussions�

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Resources:

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Future calls & communication

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  • Reminder! Add your name and contact details in the minutes doc
  • Added questions table and resources table top of minutes for use

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Wrap Up

  • Thanks for coming!��
  • Actions:
    • Next meeting 1 May
    • Send through agenda items for next meeting
    • Bring any questions or challenges to meeting�
  • Future meetings:
    • What would people like to cover?
    • Could practical adaptation initiatives for another impact
    • Report back on any findings/progress �
  • Feedback

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