Green light candidate Janine KITSON (Running)

Davidson can do better on the Climate Emergency

The devastating impacts of climate change are intensifying across the world with catastrophic floods, droughts, bushfires, landslides, cyclones and other extreme weather events.   Global warming is predicted to exceed the 1.5 degree limit that was agreed in the Paris Agreement. 

Searing summer heat waves or ongoing floods are now the norm.  ‘Extreme’ fire days are projected to increase in the coming years.  This makes Davidson’s bushland suburbs particularly vulnerable to catastrophic bushfire with many of its suburbs accessed by only one-road.  

We need to THINK globally and ACT locally to ensure we rapidly decarbonise by investing in cheaper and cleaner renewable energy. 

According to the 2018 Bureau of Statistics suburbs in the Davidson electorate have one of the highest uptakes of electric cars in the nation.  

We need to stop …

Green light candidate Caroline Atkinson (Running)

All Greens candidates for the NSW state election have been assessed by Vote Climate One as Green Light Candidates because of their strong policy and action on climate.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Principles

The Greens NSW believe that:

1.    Humans have radically altered Earth’s biophysical environment; this degradation poses the greatest threat to our planet’s climate system. A meaningful shift by communities, governments and corporations to a more harmonious and symbiotic relationship with Earth’s living systems is urgently required.

2.    Climate change threatens all aspects of life. It is already disrupting human societies through changing weather patterns, extreme weather events, desertification and sea level rise. It threatens food security, water, the economy, social cohesion and the well-being …

Green light candidate Andrew WILLS (Running)

Pictured: 2022 NSW Senate candidate Cr Georgia Lamb (right).

“The viability of our societies depends on leaders from government, business and civil society uniting behind policies, actions and investments that will limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.” Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“The world’s leading climate scientists have warned that the prospect of limiting global warming to 1.5C will be out of reach within 12 years at current rates of greenhouse gas emissions, in a report that finds it is now “unequivocal’’ that human activity …