Breakthrough explains a package of essentials for safe climate restoration

Breakthrough is a platform for organisations, and individuals who are seeking to explore and develop sounds strategies to restore safe climate conditions.

Breakthrough explores the concept of safe climate restoration through a range of forums that aim to ignite the energy to develop a coordinated effort to take action for safe climate restoration.

Breakthrough has emerged from a growing need to develop a more coordinated approach to climate action and seeks to help align and define high level emergency scale strategies across environmental and social movements.

Breakthrough provides a chance to explore leading work by those who are working with climate restoration at the core of their work.

Breakthrough has now released a chart explaining clearly what policy is needed if we are to restore a safe climate.

“It seems,” is says “that what is essential to achieve for our planet is impossible. At both the state and national levels our environment and way of life is facing unprecedented threats.

“We have to face it, conventional political change methods have not worked. Clearly a breakthrough is needed.”

We have run out of time for half measures it argues and it is now imperative that we work to restore a safe climate as fast as humanly possible. This will require action at emergency scale and speed.

“To help harness the desire for rapid change and to help energise the climate movement at this critical time, the National Centre for Climate Restoration (Breakthrough) has been established to engage with a range of groups and activists to create the groundswell needed to build a new momentum for urgent climate restoration,” it says.

Breakthrough is leading with an intention to reinvigorate collective action and help facilitate stronger collaboration.

Conference to focus on psychology and climate

Psychology for
 a safe climate.
 

A group of psychologists and caring professionals are working together to help the community psychologically understand climate change and encourage strong and urgent action on the dilemma.

The Melbourne-based group has set up “Psychology for a Safe Climate” and has its 2013 conference on October 12 and 13.

In organizing the conference the group asked: “How can psychology and the social sciences help us face the reality of climate change?”

“How can we understand and move beyond the current stalemate, - indeed the current apathy – towards the reality of climate change. How can we foster collective engagement to urgently and effectively tackle climate change?” it asks.

The conference will bring together researchers, practitioners and writers in psychology and the social science to examine the prevailing dynamics of climate change.
Details of the event are available from the group’s website: http://www.psychologyforasafeclimate.org/

Chaning climate will undoubtedly worsen humanity's health status

The unfolding difficulties associated with our changing climate will undoubtedly complicate, and worsen, humanity’s health status.

An organization acutely aware of those complications is the 2010 established “Climate and Health Alliance”.

The alliance is a coalition of health care stakeholders eager to see the threat to human health from climate change and ecological degradation addressed through prompt policy action.

“This commitment,” it says, “is based on the understanding that further global warming poses grave risks to human health and biodiversity and if left unchecked, threatens the future of human civilization”.

Alliance members acknowledge that they have a particular responsibility to the community in advocating for public policy that will promote and protect human health.
In advocating for policy action to prevent further global warming, the CAHA recognizes that this must include dramatic and urgent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to restore a safe climate.

More details about the alliance can be found on its website.