This morning climbers deployed a banner reading ‘Protecting Forests is Climate Action’ at Protestor Falls near Nimbin.

The Australian Council of Social Service is calling on all political parties and candidates to commit to a bold, people-centred policy agenda ahead of the upcoming federal budget, with urgent investment in social security, housing, employment, climate action and disaster resilience.

Global efforts to tackle climate change are wildly off track. The UNEP (United Nations Environment Program) finds that the current pledges under the Paris Agreement put the world on track for a 2.2 to 2.9 degree Celsius temperature rise above preindustrial levels this century. That’s way above the 1.5 degrees we need to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. And right now, warming gases are accumulating faster than at any previous  time in human existence.

In the heart of the Northern Rivers, a critical conversation is about to unfold. On 23 October, the Brunswick Picture House will host 'Highway to Hell: Are we stuck in a Climate Action Cul-de-sac?'

Rising Tide Northern Rivers is part of a peaceful mass movement for climate defence, recently launched at Hastings Point and in Lismore.

Move Beyond Coal says it will be staging protests at Labor MP offices around the country over the next week to 'turn up the heat' on the government to stop approving climate-wrecking coal and gas projects.

Students are calling for everyone to come out in support of the School Strikes 4 Climate this Friday, November 17 at 10am in Railway Park, Byron Bay.

The last 12 months have been marked by a new tactic taken towards nonviolent direct actions carried out in the defence of climate and the environment, which has seen jurisdictions, such as NSW, Victoria and Tasmania, dramatically escalate the punishments that apply to such protests.

Today Extinction Rebellion Lismore will make sure the federal member for Page hasn’t forgotten about the black summer bushfires and their devastating impact on NSW’s koala population.

From XR to religious multi-faith networks the call is becoming stronger for real action on climate change.