The newly released draft national curriculum documents have gained qualified support from the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Australia’s largest youth organisation.

“Given the future growth of green jobs in our economy, an education system grounded in sustainability is critical to the…

What do you get when you combine summer weather, good food, and a bunch of AYCC volunteers? Why, Bollywood dancing of course!

After the excitement of the year that was 2009, it was high time for our hard-working volunteers to…

Join hundreds of other people in a fun, peaceful and effective action against Australia’s single biggest contribution to climate change.

Horseshoe Beach, Newcastle: Sunday March 28, 10am onwards

• Join in on the water or the shore
• BYO vessel, or use one of ours
• Or…make your own…

Unpacking Copenhagen: What happened, what it means, and where we’re headed

Sydney: Wednesday, February 24 2010, 9-11am

Did the huge volume of media coming out of Copenhagen this week overwhelm you and turn you off? Are you unsure what the final…

On Saturday afternoon, as most world leaders had left Copenhagen, the AYCC International team gathered in a circle on the dusty floor of a large warehouse called Oskenhallen that most of the NGOs, including us, had been using as a…

4am, Copenhagen.

“Given where we started and the expectations for this conference, anything less than a legally binding and agreed outcome falls far short of the mark.”
- John Ashe, Chair of Kyoto Protocol talks.

THIS is it? After two years of…

The US, South Africa, India and China have come to an international accord on climate change. The private deal falls far short of even the lowest expectations – it contains no detail on emission reduction targets by 2020 and is…

I’m currently at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where world leaders are facing the greatest challenge of this century. With three days of negotiations to go and world leaders arriving for 60 hours of negotiations, the voices of…

“It often surprises me that addressing climate change is cast primarily as an environmental or green crusade. That the way we live our lives today will determine the future of the planet is true to some extent. It is in our…