Invitation: DCAN planning session 2025

While the year is fast drawing to a close, we are already thinking about next year and would like to invite you to join us on Saturday 8th February 2-5pmfor our 2025 planning session.

The upcoming Federal election will be a key focus for us as we plan strategies to elect candidates who are committed to serious and urgent action on the climate crisis. We will also be reviewing our working groups and key roles to ensure DCAN remains a proactive and influential grass roots climate group.

If you are interested in attending, please let us know by email: [email protected] so that we can keep you posted on the details as they come to hand. Many thanks for your support over the past year.

Community outrage at coal mine expansions

As part of nationwide protests outside Labor MP's offices, over 70 people, including many DCAN supporters, demonstrated outside Peter Khalil's office in Brunswick to express outrage over the Albanese government's imminent coal mine approvals.

The Albanese government has rejected legal requests to assess the environmental and climate harm of three new coal mine expansions, paving the way for approval of these climate wrecking projects to go ahead.

Call the PM and your local Labor MP and tell them no more coal mines!

DCAN says no to nuclear fantasy

DCAN recently presented to a public hearing of a Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry into nuclear power generation in Australia.

In our submission to the inquiry, we argued that nuclear is not a sensible or safe option for Australia. It will simply arrive too late to help with the massive carbon emission reductions that need to be made by 2030. Every dollar invested in nuclear takes away precious investment dollars for the rapid expansion of cheaper, cleaner, renewable energy – an industry already on the ground and embraced by millions of Australians who are putting solar on their roof tops.

We also expressed serious concerns about the radioactive waste generated by nuclear power and the health and safety of families living near nuclear reactors.

Click here for more information and resources.

Stop fracking in the NT - Coburg event

Despite the hot weather, over 200 people turned up at the Coburg Town Hall to hear first hand from NT First Nations and community leaders about thethreats posed by fracking and the Middle Arm gas hub for Country, climate, and the very livability of the Territory. Growing numbers of people across Australia are taking a stand and urging the Prime Minister to redirect the $1.9b subsidy for the toxic Middle Arm gas hub.

DCAN was proud to co-host the event with Climate Action Merri-bek, the Environment Centre NT, Australian Conservation Foundation and supported by many other climate community groups.

Please sign the petition to Labor politicians calling on them to stand up against this fracking madness. Read more about the event and see photos here.

No More Coal & Gas signs popular in Fairfield

Our No More Coal and Gas signs are flying out the door. We gave away 40 signs in just one hour in the Fairfield Village while the Climate Choir Melbourne kept everyone entertained with creatively remastered Christmas carols. Like a sign for your front fence or window? Contact Katherine for your free sign.

3-degrees of warming and humanity's future!

Collision Course - a comprehensive report on the most recent scientific literature on the climate system makes compelling but disturbing reading.

The report comes from the eminent climate policy analyst David Spratt, Research Director at the independent think tank Breakthrough. He is not constrained by the caution imposed on many scientists working for governments and large organisations, and he concludes that we are on track for a world that is hotter by 3°C or more, with unprecedented heat, drowning cities, collapsing food systems, and societal instability.

He points out the radical policy changes needed to meet this existential threat and the requirement for urgent action rather than gradual change.

Download a copy here.