Green Drinks May 2024

Join us for a special Green Drinks event with the premiere screening of the ‘Sunshine Coast Climate Emergency Declaration Film’

This is the story of the power of community action by a group of informed and motivated people.

In this case it is the story of a collection of environmental and activist community groups banding together and motivating a large number of ordinary community members to act on an issue of global importance, but which has intensely local impact.

This issue is human-induced climate disruption. In other words, global heating and climate change.

This action consisted of the coming together of 15 community action groups into a network of collaboration. The network was given the title Urgent Climate Action Network – Sunshine Coast (UCANSC). The major goal was to push the Sunshine Coast Council to declare a Climate Emergency.

Sunshine Coast Council is only the second local government jurisdiction in Queensland to do this but there are 117 jurisdictions throughout Australia that have done so, and covers 45.7% of the Australian population.

This story is documented in an engaging video that follows the progress of this community action project.

Tickets are no longer available for this event.