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Retiree with superannuation? Young person with a bank account? Company shareholder? Your savings are invested in projects that can either increase global warming – or slow it down.

Do you know how your bank or super fund invests your money? This short survey will help you find out.

When governments fail to act with urgency, others need to step up. Forward-thinking companies recognise that for their survival, and ours, they need to divest from fossil fuels. Taking care of the climate is responsible economic management.

How is YOUR money being used? Climate Change Balmain-Rozelle is working with Market Forces to help you tell your financial institution that YOU recognise the risk of business-as-usual. Don’t just make a switch, make a fuss to effect change.

What you can do

• Take the survey to see what your financial institutions are up to and what you can do about it. SURVEY CLOSES DECEMBER 7.

• Share the survey with your friends and family to get them thinking. SURVEY CLOSES DECEMBER 7.

• Put your bank on notice and tell your super fund you want them to do better (Market Forces website has a letter ready for you to send).

• Find a new bank or super fund that better aligns with your values - but make a fuss to your existing one first!

Climate Change Balmain-Rozelle has long been a supporter of solar PV on public and private buildings in the Inner West. We are excited that three community groups now have initiatives so everyone can have a share in a renewable future.

Renters, future renovators and shady characters:

for whatever reason, you may be locked out of installing your own system. But you can now join a cooperative to produce solar power, and receive the benefit on your electricity bill. Haystacks is a 3-hectare community-owned solar garden (1MW) on a farm in the NSW Riverina. What we like? It benefits the local community, and your share is transferable (within NSW) so you could pass on the future credits to, say, a family member if your circumstances change. You have until the end of November to express interest by joining the co-op. EXTENDED TO DECEMBER! We recommend attending an online information session.

Apartment owners:

as individuals you could join the Haystacks co-operative, but there may be other solutions to get your whole building producing solar. Find out the options at Solar4Strata, a webinar by Climate Justice Sydney East, on November 16 at 6.30pm. Register.

Home owners:

not sure where to start? Our mates at Inner West Community Energy have helped 80 local residents to get solar power in the last three years or so. They provide a free service to deliver practical advice to individuals, businesses and community organisations who want to install solar, and connect them to a network of trusted installers. And IWCE has just constructed and commissioned a massive solar PV system on Acre Eatery at Camperdown Commons.

We are pleased to let you know about these ways to act, because they are all initiated by not-for-profit groups, helping individuals work together to reduce fossil fuel emissions.

On September 25, school students across Australia will be calling on politicians to Fund Our Future not Gas. CCBR supporters have already begun to amplify the message - socially distanced of course!

There has never been a more important time to ensure that, as we recover from the current economic shock, our future jobs and industries are based on the clean renewable resources Australia has in abundance, as well as on the principle of inter-generational justice.

Yet our Federal Government's response is heaviiy weighted to using public money to support the expansion of gas, both domestically and as an export. We've asked for a meeting with our local MP, Anthony Albanese, to ask about his policy in coal and gas, and the transition we must have over the next decade.

What you can do

• Join a School Strike 4 Climate action near you on Sept 25

• Email or phone your MP to say gas is a fossil fuel too!

Adani plans to ship coal from its proposed Carmichael coal project in Queensland to Godda in eastern India where they are constructing a new coal-fired power station to burn Australian coal to generate dirty, overpriced power for Bangladesh. Adani’s proposed coal plant at Godda will displace thousands of Indigenous adivasi (Aboriginal) people, and be highly polluting for the local community and global climate.

In September 2019, Adani’s newly proposed water pipeline for the coal power plant received approval, enabling Adani to take 36 billion litres a year out of the Ganges to support their power plant. The surrounding communities continue to resist Adani’s plan despite serious oppression.

What you can do

• Sign and share the community petition

• Find out more in this briefing note

• Email to stop finance for Adani's port

Update: The Independent Planning Commission approved this project in September (with over 300 conditions) in spite of over 20,000 submissions against it. The campaign is not yet over.

The NSW Government has recommended approval of an 850-well coal seam gas field in the Pilliga forest wilderness and farmland near Narrabri.

This represents an enormous expansion of NSW gas extraction ( 4 times the size of previously approved CSG projects in NSW).

The Pilliga is the largest temperate forest we have left in the state. Turning it into an industrial gas field will poison groundwater, carve up the forest with roads and pipelines, endanger koalas and other threatened species, and increase the risk of wildfires.

Encourage the Independent Planning Commission to decide against expansion of Coal Seam Gas mining in Pilliga area by mining giant Santos. Make your submission by August 10.

• Click for CCBR Submission 22-7-20

• Click for CCBR Fact Sheet

• Click for Narrabri IPC webinar resources