2024 Youth Climate Conference
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2024 Youth Climate Conference 〰️
Noosa Youth Advocacy Group
Delivers Australia’s First Youth Climate Summit
Delivered by Youth for Youth.
What a success Australia’s first Youth Led Climate Summit was! The Noosa Youth Advocacy Group presented the climate science with the ease to a group of like minded peers. The group then received downloads from some of the regions key environmental groups and summit participants generated a raft of ideas to take back to their schools and communities. These will be collated over the coming week and reported to Noosa Council and State Government. The time for action is now and our first major petition to be generated from the event will be to lower the voting age to 16 years of age. We must allow the voices of this generation to be heard and counted! Stay tuned for details.
The outcomes of the summit will be shared on this page. Some key targets from the Summit include:
lowering the voting age to 16,
achieving zero emissions in our schools and households,
composting and reducing emissions from organic waste in landfill,
utilising sustainable transport solutions,
advocating with our elected politicians.
One thing for sure our region is well endowed in intelligent, caring young people who want to effect real change. All participants are invited to continue this great work by joining the Noosa Youth Advocacy Group (NYAG) here.
“If our leaders continue with all talk and no action, they are unrightfully throwing away our future. I would like to see politicians coming together with a plan and start putting that plan into action. It has to be a consistent thing. No more talk. It is time for action. Actions speak louder than words”.
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Post Summit Resources
Get Informed Stay Connected
There is so much information and support on our climate action journey. In this section you will find all the post summit resources and links to all our friends who dedicate their lives to curbing climate change.
Lets start with the presenters and their websites:
Climate Emergency Declaration - packed full of everything climate emergency this is the site that helps support our governments to start taking real steps. (Facilitator Adrian Whitehead)
Zero Emissions Noosa - this site is packed full of ideas on reducing Noosa community emissions. (Facilitator Vivien Griffin)
Zero Positive Schools - with schools being one of our communities largest emitters, this site focusses on emissions reduction in schools and helping you access real time energy data for use in the curriculum see what participating schools are doing. (Facilitator Dave Askov)
Go Noosa Schools - take advantage of Renee’s expertise and assistance in reducing emissions for your school by locating sustainable transport solutions for the commute. (Facilitator Renee Black)
Noosa District Landcare - so much goes on at Noosa District Landcare and they offer horticultural certificate courses that will help you find a career supporting our environment. (Facilitator Ilana Kelly)
Yandina Food Waste Loop - what a model for community composting, our organic waste is a resource and its removal from landfill greatly benefits emissions reduction. What if all our schools set up a similar system, its not only a great resource for school gardens its a business idea creating income for students. (Facilitator Emily Boyd)
Recycling in Schools - did you know you that Emma from Council is here to support your efforts in recycling at your school? Do you need access to recycling bins or knowledge on best practice recycling? (Facilitator Emma Menzies)
Plastic Free Noosa - is here to support all businesses in the Shire to reduce reliance on single use plastics, want to improve your canteens sustainability or find a suppler who can support your school canteen. (Facilitator Jo Ferris)
Reef Check Australia - committed to our oceans and reef systems. The Group has also produced a handy Action Kit.
Sunshine Coast Environment Council - with a commitment spanning Bribie Island to Noosa and a long standing history in advocating for change we are thankful for the work this umbrella organisation continues to do on the Coast. (Natalie Frost)
An education event , empowering positive grassroots change.
Noosa Youth Climate Summit
Listen to the audio from the student interview with ABC Sunshine Coast below.
“I think Climate Change is a very important current issue that needs to be addressed and as we are the next generation I think it’s vital that we do something about it.”
‘Net zero emissions’ is an overall balance between greenhouse gas emissions produced and greenhouse gas emissions taken out of the atmosphere.
Zero Positive is a world-first emissions reduction program, endorsed by the United Nations, and developed specifically to empower Australian schools and their communities with the right tools, education and support to begin the journey towards reaching net zero emissions targets and becoming climate positive.
(School solar data from zeroemissionsnoosa.com.au)
Reducing our reliance on single use and plastic packaging is just one step to an ultimate solution. Alternative packaging is an absolute must and its time for companies to take action on their companies sustainability cycle. A circular economy should be the norm within todays society. Companies should be responsible for the full cycle of their products creation delivery and recycling. The Noosa EEHub is proud to promote businesses in our Shire who are already applying these philosophies to their business practices.
(Image courtesy Yandina Food Waste Loop; Project Officer, Emily Boyd)
Circular Economies
The circular economy is a new way to think about how to design, make, use and manage products and resources. It includes elements of industrial ecology, lean manufacturing, sustainable business operations and product design.
Circular economy is an economic model which seeks to decouple economic activity from the consumption of renewable and finite resources. It represents a shift away from the current linear economic model based on the ‘take-make-dispose’ approach to managing products and resources.
(Image courtesy Boomerang Bags Noosa)