Effective local climate action
Influencing decision makers and community
Lighter Footprints, a committed local climate group, aims to influence Australians (including local, state and national decision makers) to take the necessary action to halt global warming as a matter of urgency.
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We are looking for action, rather than further debate. We need your help and are keen to support you to get involved so please join in.
Events
We facilitate large events as well as offering a range of exciting speakers on clean energy, sustainability and climate action at our monthly meetings.
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Living in the Clean Economy
Lighter Footprints is excited to present Prof Tom Kompas and Prof Peter Newman on the benefits of a low carbon economy, and the case for a faster transition.
Tom Kompas is an expert in Environmental Economics and is the lead author of a high level business case on a faster transition to a clean economy for Victoria and Queensland. His work details avoiding the massive costs of inaction (conservatively $584 billion by 2030), and three to one benefits for a faster transition to a clean economy. Peter Newman AO is an IPCC Lead Author and a much lauded sustainability expert. He will bring global perspectives and a vision of what living the clean economy could bring to communities.
Agriculture, Regeneration & Climate
Our modern industrial agricultural monocultures are a vast climate problem but agriculture should be a source of climate innovation, reducing emissions and restoring our soils.
Conventional agriculture has led to loss of soil carbon, declining soil productivity and desertification, and in the face of heat, droughts and floods, this has become worse.