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A Climate and Biodiversity Emergency Declaration by geographers in Australia

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We, geographers in Australia, declare that the world is facing multiple and interlinked emergencies of climate change, biodiversity loss and social inequality. We declare that we have a responsibility to care about and respond to a diversity of threats including human-induced climate change, threats to biodiversity and socio-economic inequality. We are concerned about the differential impacts experienced by people, places, and the human and natural systems that connect and sustain them. Now is the time to act. In making this declaration, we commit to better understanding, caring about and responding to the threats to people, places and the human and natural systems that connect and sustain them. We recognise the disproportionate impact of these threats and that they are experienced unevenly across space and time. These multiple emergencies have unfurled over vastly different temporal and spatial scales. I the Australian context our discipline was implicated in the ongoing violence of c...
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Our declaration has launched!

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From the 6 - 9th July 2021 geographers from Australia, Aotearoa (New Zealand) and beyond met virtually for the Institute of Australian Geographers and New Zealand Geographical Society combined Conference.  Whilst we had planned to be physically together at the University of Sydney on lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, Covid-19 had other ideas.  Sydney was a few weeks into its er lasting lockdown. Melbourne for once, was not in lockdown, border bubbles were popped, and Zoom and Twitter were the mediums of choice for conference chatter.  On the middle day of the conference, Wednesday 7th July, Susan Caldis, just days away from submitting her PhD thesis, gave a keynote marking the launch of the Climate and biodiversity emergency declaration by geographers in Australia. The Geographical Teachers Association NSW & ACT President's talk,  Understanding a climate emergency in and through geography education: What can geography educators declare , highlighted...
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Geographers declaration to be launched at IAG/NZGS Combined Conference 2021

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From 6–9 July 2021 the Institute of Australian Geographers and New Zealand Geographical Society combined Conference will take place at the University of Sydney on the stolen, unceded lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. It is at this conference that we plan to launch the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency Declaration by Geographers in Australia:   We, geographers in Australia, declare that the world is facing multiple and interlinked emergencies of climate change, biodiversity loss and social inequality. We declare that we have a responsibility to care about and respond to a diversity of threats including human-induced climate change, threats to biodiversity and socio-economic inequality. We are concerned about the differential impacts experienced by people, places, and the human and natural systems that connect and sustain them. Now is the time to act. Read the full declaration here . We invite all geographers - individuals: students, teachers, academics, professi...
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