A safe and thriving environment for all

The ACT, like the rest of Australia, has been deeply affected by the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.

Canberra’s mature trees are being removed at alarming rates; our faunal emblem, the Gang-gang Cockatoo is endangered; and our natural areas are at increasing risk of development and degradation. Five new species have been added to the ACT Threatened Native Species List since the last ACT Government Election in 2020.

Climate change is the most significant threat to the survival of all life on earth. The impacts of a changing climate are well upon us: increasingly severe fires, storms, floods, heatwaves and droughts are forcing societies and natural ecosystems to transform how they function.

This ACT election, call on candidates to safeguard a healthy environment, climate, wildlife, grasslands and woodlands. Now is our opportunity to together ensure that nature and climate issues play a prominent role in the 2024 Election and seek agreement from all independents and political parties on key policy priorities.

The Conservation Council ACT Region is the ACT region’s leading environmental advocacy organisation and hub for community groups. Our mission is to protect nature and create a safe climate future in the ACT and region. Since 1981 we have been at the centre of the region’s most important wins for wildlife, bushland and communities.

a safe and thriving environment for all:

act election policy priorities 2024

snapshot summary of our election asks

The Conservation Council ACT Region is striving to protect nature and create a safe climate. Our Policy Platform outlines our priority areas for action, for which we are seeking support from all candidates in the 2024 ACT Election.

A Safe Climate

Climate change is the most significant threat to the survival of all life on earth. The impacts of a changing climate are well upon us: increasingly severe fires, storms, floods, heatwaves and droughts are forcing societies and natural ecosystems to transform how they...

Clean and Healthy Waterways

The ACT is the largest urban centre within the Murray-Darling Basin. The Ngunnawal (Ngunawal), Ngambri, Ngarigo Peoples and acknowledging all other First Nations people with connections to this region, have ongoing deep cultural roots to the water courses and byways...

Protecting Our Region’s Nature

The ACT, like the rest of Australia, is undergoing a biodiversity extinction crisis. Canberra’s mature trees are being removed at alarming rates; our faunal emblem, the Gang-gang Cockatoo is endangered; and our natural areas are at increasing risk of development and...

Sustainable Transport

Canberran residents and visitors traverse the city on millions of trips daily for employment, education, social, recreational, and household activities. Commercial, government and community sector vehicles carry goods and provide many of the services that underpin...

Our Key Asks

Protect Ngununggula/ Bluetts Block as a nature reserve

Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship

Build the missing links in our active travel network

Stop runaway habitat clearing

Require all firewood sold in the ACT to meet forest certification standards.

Take action

Nature needs us now. Our community wants to end extinctions, fully electrify and safeguard our future.Write to your local candidate asking them to commit to the asks outlined in the policy priorities document.

Ask your candidate to commit to our priority nature and climate asks:

At community election forums
At shopping centre stalls
On their social media
During radio talkback
In letters to the editor

Call on your candidates to commit to our priority nature and climate asks

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Dear Candidate,

The ACT is home to incredible wildlife found nowhere else on earth. But the wildlife and the places we love are under threat like never before.The impacts of climate change, including longer, hotter summers, increasingly severe bushfire seasons, and extreme weather events, have already had wide ramifications for nature, health and the community. The ACT is battling an extinction crisis. Mature trees are being removed from the landscape at alarming rates; our beloved faunal emblem, the Gang-gang Cockatoo, is endangered; and our woodlands and grasslands are at increasing risk of being bulldozed to make way for an ever expanding city.

We must act with greater urgency right now, reducing emissions and protecting nature, to create a more sustainable and just world.
As a candidate standing to be elected to represent the ACT community, please commit to:

- Protect Ngununggula/ Bluetts Block as a nature reserve
- Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
- Build the missing links in our active travel network 
- Stop runaway habitat clearing
- Require all firewood sold in the ACT to meet forest certification standards.

In the face of the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, now is the time to act bravely and sensibly to protect our environment and climate. Climate change and nature destruction are the biggest challenges facing the ACT. I look forward to your leadership in representing the community towards a safe climate and healthy environment for all.

Yours sincerely,

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18

Sept

ELECTION FORUM 2024, HUMANATIX BANNER (1)

A Safe and Thriving Environment for all: ACT Election Candidates forum

This forum will provide the opportunity to hear from candidates and ask them about their position on the nature and climate issues that matter to you.

Candidates are standing to represent our community, it’s important they know our community wants to end extinctions, stop runaway habitat clearing, build the missing links in our active travel network and ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship.

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