We need urgent action on climate change!

Get involved in the Brisbane's actions as part of the national week of protest action beginning September 21
Climate change is occurring faster than the world's scientists have predicted. Recent data including the very real possibility of the arctic sea-ice melting by September this year demonstrate that this is a climate emergency.

The Federal Government's proposed Emissions Trading Scheme allows handouts to the biggest polluters and - by the government's own admission - will allow emissions to continue rising for some years .

At the state level, Queensland is the biggest coal exporting state, within the biggest coal exporting country in the world . The Queensland Government is encouraging the tripling of coal production by 2030, including building Australia's largest coal port at pristine Shoalwater Bay.

This is all utterly unsustainable. We need urgent action on climate change on many fronts, including:
* No new coal;
* Massive public spending on renewable energy;
* More public transport not roads and tunnels

A national week of protests is being organised across Australia at the Spring Equinox, in the week beginning September 21.

We ask climate change campaign groups and networks and all environmentally concerned organisations across South-East Queensland to join us for a meeting to organise a co-ordinated and effective week of public protest around these themes.

Initial call issued by the organising committee for the July 5 Climate Emergency rally in Melbourne www.climaterally. blogspot. com and endorsed unanimously by participants at the August 2 Climate Justice seminar in Melbourne www.climatejusticeseminar.blogspot. com

In Brisbane, supported by
John Mackenzie, Friends of the Earth Brisbane
Ellie Smith, Australian Student Environment Network
Emma Brindal, Coal Friction Coalition/FoE Brisbane
Paul Benedek, Socialist Alliance & Save the Mary River Brisbane
Shani Tager, Coal Free Queensland
Brad Smith, University of Queensland Environment Collective
Dom Hale, Resistance
Kate Mckeague, Qld University of Technology Environment Collective
Lauren Mellor, QUT Environment Collective