Australian Climate Hearing
The Australian Climate Hearing – held on 23 November 2009 – was a chance to hear the voices of people impacted by climate change in Australia, the Pacific and Asia. Watch some of the powerful testimony that was shown below, as well as highlights from the hearing. Then take action and ask your local Member of Parliament to watch these testimonies which speak of the devastating climate impacts that people already, and increasingly, face.
Watch the climate testimonies from our region
Join the discussion
If you missed the Australian Hearing, you can still get involved and make a difference by:
- Following highlights from the hearing on this page.
- Joining in the discussion on A Climate for Change, where people will be blogging from the event and you can share your climate stories and thoughts.
- Taking action to keep pressure on the Australian Government
Some background on the climate hearings
Australia are only thinking of committing [to a carbon pollution reduction target of] less than 25%, New Zealand the same. We look up to [these countries] because they have the resources [to cut further]. We have to find a win-win situation. So that we can all live in this world.
Mika Maiava, Pacific Tokelau Islands
One hundred and twenty Oxfam climate hearings were held around the world during 2009, to help increase pressure on world leaders in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Summit held in December 2009. They gave people suffering the impacts of climate change the chance to make their voices heard by decision makers who have an opportunity to do something about it.
Read more on Oxfam’s international Climate Hearing Project
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