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Solutions for Climate Australia is a national political advocacy campaign calling on major federal political parties to slash climate pollution this decade. Australia needs strong targets that at minimum match our key allies the United States, the United Kingdom and trading partners such as the European Union and Japan. 

This plan should include:

• Delivery of 100% of our electricity from sun, wind and other renewable power and storage by 2030;
• A national plan to clean up transport and drive the shift to electric vehicles;
• The end of public funding for coal, oil and gas;
• An Australian Trees for Climate Plan to reduce climate pollution by at least 1 billion tonnes by 2030.

Together, we must protect people and nature from worse heatwaves, bushfires, droughts and storms fuelled by climate warming, and look after communities most impacted by climate change. To achieve this, the science tells us we need to slash climate pollution this decade, to reduce pollution by 75% below 2005 levels by 2030 and to reach zero emissions by 2035.

If you would like to know more about this campaign, please email Sophia Walter, Senior Strategist.

Neil has been Chair of the CANA board since October 2021. He splits his professional time between leading the Corporate Affairs for a disability provider, and his own business-for-purpose government engagement consulting firm, Tanck. Neil sits on a number of community, government and private boards, and brings his passion for stakeholder and government engagement, as well as extensive governance skills to CANA. Neil lives in regional Victoria, with his two dogs and many greenhouses, and in his spare time snowboards and kayaks. Neil also lectures leadership and governance at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.

leads the Solutions for Climate Australia project, working to create enduring bipartisanship in federal politics for decisive action on climate. An ecologist by training, BJ is one of Australia’s most successful environmental advocates and has led and co-led work on many major environmental campaigns. This has included work with Indigenous peoples to protect Outback landscapes, greatly expanding Australia’s marine park network, and getting in place controls on land-clearing in Queensland, which greatly reduced Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. BJ has lived in country Australia all his life and is especially passionate about protecting nature, and working with people in regional and remote Australia. He lives on Jinabara lands in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland.

is a senior campaigner working on advocacy for bipartisan Federal Parliament action on climate change. Sophia’s role involves working with people and organisations to shift the dial on the Federal Government’s current commitments to act on climate change. Sophia’s professional background includes working with a range of environmental organisations in Australia, China and Botswana, including most recently the Pew Charitable Trusts. Sophia has worked in journalism, at a native title organisation and at a campaigning electorate office. She is particularly passionate about supporting people to be empowered to make decisions about and care for their country, in particular land justice for First Nations peoples. Sophia is a Queenslander and lives on Yuggera and Turrbal country in Brisbane.

Following the CANA Leadership Retreat in December 2020, the core group of people identified at the Retreat have been working to develop a Network Strategy. The draft for your consideration is here. We welcome your feedback and thoughts via the form below.

To discuss the Network Strategy further, please get in contact with a member of the core group:

Julie-Anne Richards (CANA) | Glen Klatovsky (CANA) | James Whelan (CANA) | Kelly O’Shanassy (ACF) | Ellen Roberts (Solar Citizens) | Denise Cauchi (DEA) | Brad Smith (NCC) | Oliver Toohey (Pew)