Photo: Pete Axford/Oxfam

What you can do

You personally:

Reduce car usage by walking, cycling or using public transport
Switch to 100 percent green power
Minimise your air travel
Support carbon-offset schemes

In your community:

Become active in a climate change campaign
Talk to your workplace management about reducing workplace emissions
Lobby your elected officials to act on climate change
Talk to your friends, family and neighbours about climate change and simple ways to reduce emissions

Call on the Australian Government to:

Boost the aid budget to ensure an integrated response to poverty eradication, climate change mitigation and adaptation
Set targets of a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 (on 1990 levels) and an 80 percent cut by 2050
Undertake an urgent review into the cost of funding climate change adaptation in developing countries (similar to the Stern Review)

Links

Find out about climate change campaigns you can get involved in: