Climate Futures Summit recap
This month, the SEA team had the opportunity to join other local and global leaders at the inaugural Climate Futures Summit in Melbourne.
The event was an opportunity to work together, share ideas and continue to make strides towards change. It brought the breadth of University of Melbourne research together with voices from policy, industry, Indigenous people, and youth that make up a rich community.
Here are some key takeaways from the event, curated by SEA CEO Katherine O’Regan. We hope these insights will help you, whether you have forthcoming climate and sports discussions or are working on your club or organisation’s sustainability strategy and action plan.
The climate movement is now all about implementation – this is driven by both an increase in awareness as well as the imperative for urgent action as an incremental approach is not sufficient to address the speed of degradation.
To be effective, climate action needs to be trans-disciplinary and move away from an approach that separately addresses adaption and mitigation.
For business and industry, climate as an issue has moved from being managed by marketing to a material business risk that all executives have responsibility for.
Climate is a material governance issue of the Board where there are growing legal precedents that mean the Board is responsible for taking reasonable action to mitigate outcomes from unprecedented climate events as they are reasonably foreseeable.
Embracing caring for county of Indigenous peoples is critical to understanding and delivering on climate and Reconciliation Actions Plans carry the risk of being a tick a box exercise.
The youth are highly motivated {and anxious} to address climate change
If you are interested in joining the conversation and want to tap into SEA’s global network of change makers, join SEA here.
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