Engage Gippsland

A large component of what the Gippsland Climate Change Network does is focused on connecting and collaborating with local communities, businesses, and government organisations around climate change awareness and solutions.

We aim to:

• Generate conversations and opportunities
• Inform Gippsland about local climate change challenges and opportunities
• Be a positive voice that inspires solution-based outcomes
• Connect, engage and bring together a diversity of stakeholders
• Support other groups to come together to take action

The Renewable Energy Demonstration Trailer (RED Trailer) has been a much-loved and important educational tool since 2012. The RED Trailer with the support of AGL has been totally referbished with up-to-date technology.

The RED Trailer can be booked to attend schools, community events, and local council activities and the program can be tailored to the needs of the audience.

In 2018 Climate for Change joined with the Gippsland Climate Change Network to create the Communities Leading Change program.

Communities Leading Change supported people in the Latrobe Valley to hold conversations with their local community about what transition meant to them, and what their vision of the future looked like.

Thirty people in the Latrobe Valley were trained to facilitate compassionate conversations, and 118 members of the community joined these conversations over two years. As a result of the conversations, people are more personally motivated to take action on both energy transitions and climate action.

Published in July 2021, the 86-page magazine “Transition” features profiles of workers in the healthcare, renewable energy, transport, agriculture and coal power sectors, as well as case studies of regenerative farming, solar and wind projects, sustainable printing and more.

As climate change education is not often understood, taught, or supported in schools, the summit gave students the opportunity to learn, share ideas and develop climate action place alongside peers and engage with older community representatives.

Here Comes the Future” was a program for emerging youth leaders in Gippsland. It invited students in Grades 5&6 and Years 7-10 to find out how climate change is affecting their world. It aimed to enabling youth to participate in conversation and action around Climate Adaptation and Environmental Stewardship.

The first summit was held at Federation University (Gippsland campus) in June 2022 and the second at the Nakunbalook cultural and education centre in Sale in November 2022, partnered with GCCN and Wellington Shire. DELWP provided the funding for the broader program.

The Program has now closed.