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Take action now – order your kit of free resources
Write to Professor Garnaut the Government’s key Advisor on climate change
Reel Change- climate change short film competition
Take action now – order your kit of free resources
Make poverty History has a set of terrific resources for you to learn more about the linkages between climate change and global poverty.
Climate change will impact on everyone on the planet but the impact will be most severe upon the poorest communities within developing countries. Our new resources explore this impact. These resources include a fifteen minute DVD that tells the story of how climate change is already changing the lives of those in developing countries. Watch or download the DVD now.
The resource kit includes other useful resources including brochures, posters, stickers, a petition, a media guide and a climate change quiz (PDF: 3.6 MB), to help you spread the word and engage your community. The quiz gives you another opportunity to explore the issues, encourage others to learn more, or act as a conversation-starter in a larger group. The media guide could help you if you choose to run a larger more public event. It will help you write to your local paper to tell them about your climate change event or quiz night.
Importantly we also provide a guide for you and your work colleagues, family or friends to write to Senator Penny Wong, the Minister for Climate Change and Water, urging the Government to reduce the impacts of climate change in the developing world.
Use the resource kit to inform yourself and your friends. Consider arranging your own local forum in your work place, school or local community. You could show the DVD, run the quiz and share the action resources like the petition.
The policies that wealthy countries like Australia adopt in the future will have profound ramifications for everyone, including the poorest people in the poorest countries who are the most affected and the least responsible for causing climate change. While these people don’t get a say, you do!
So join us - Order your resources kit now. Allow 10 -14 days to receive your kit.
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Write to Professor Garnaut the Government’s key Advisor on climate change
The final Garnaut report will be released on 30 September. Between now and then you have the opportunity to submit your comments on this crucial report.
Make Poverty History has provided a letter to assist you to have your say and influence the final report. So print off copies of this letter, either as a PDF file (PDF: 53 KB) or a text file (DOC: 24 KB), share it with your friends and post it to the Garnaut Review Secretariat today!
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Reel Change- climate change short film competition
Reel Change short film competition is seeking powerful and innovative films from Australia and around the world that address the human impacts of climate change. Open to any genre including documentary, narrative, animation, music video and experimental, we are looking for short films that deal with the issues of climate change, poverty and human rights.
The best films will be screened at the 2008 Human Rights Arts and Film Festival in November and December and used as part of Make Poverty History’s climate change campaign! Thousands of dollars worth of cash and in-kind prizes awarded for the best Australian and International Short Film.
Submission deadline: August 15, 2008.
To be eligible films must have been made after 1 January 2007 and must be less than 15 minutes in duration.
For submission guidelines visit http://www.hraff.org.au.
MAKE REEL CHANGE: MAKE POVERTY HISTORY!
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