Join us to hear from Victorian community lawyers as we launch our new report, ‘Climate hotbeds: understanding climate injustice through extreme heat in social housing’.
The report and this webinar are aimed at supporting community lawyers in Victoria’s Community Legal Centres to better understand climate justice needs for the people they work with in social housing in the lead up to Victoria’s hottest summer.
When
Wednesday 13 November, 3:30-4:30pm AEDT (2:30-3:30pm AEST, 3-4pm ACDT, 2-3pm ACST, 12:30-1:30pm AWST)
Where
Online via Zoom, RSVP for the link
Who
- Environmental Justice Australia Senior Lawyer, Ashika Kanhai
- RMIT Centre for Urban Research Research Fellow, Sarah Robertson
- Sweltering Cities Senior Community Campaigner, Sophie Emder
- Federation of CLCs Climate Justice Support Unit Strategic Lead, Bronwyn Lay
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About this webinar
How climate change exacerbates injustices
Victoria is heading towards a long hot (and wet) summer – the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's weather modelling suggests Australia is facing one of the hottest summers on record, largely due to ongoing high ocean temperatures surrounding our island continent. This poses many disaster risks – from fires to heatwaves – that will have devastating adverse impacts across Victoria. Days and nights will be very hot, everyday needs will be disrupted and the risk of heat-induced fatalities will increase. But the severity of these impacts on people in social housing is even more significant.
Across Victoria, community lawyers are well aware of the compounding injustices faced by many people living in social housing. What may be less obvious is how climate change exacerbates these issues.
As Victoria’s specialist environmental community legal service, Environmental Justice Australia, through the Climate Justice Legal Project, has been undertaking work to better understand impacts of extreme heat on people living in social housing and the opportunities this presents for community lawyers in Victoria to help climate safety for social housing tenants.
In this webinar, we will talk about how community lawyers can apply a climate lens to their work as Victoria continues to be an escalating climate hotbed.
