Global Citizen presents World Environment Day 2020 Webinar: Climate, Coronavirus & Community

Global Citizen is excited to announce our third event this year, designed for our most passionate Global Citizens around Australia and New Zealand.

We're bringing you more inspiring speakers to unpack the challenges facing people living in extreme poverty... but now online so you can join us from your couch, dining table or the park!

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How to Join this Event at 11am AEST on Friday 5 June:

We are using Cisco Webex for this event! It’s a super easy, and high quality video conferencing platform, very similar to Zoom. 

To Join from an Mobile Device (iPhone, iPad etc):

• Click this link 
• Click ‘Join’ on the next screen
• Click ‘Download’ on the next screen to download the Cisco Webex Meetings app from the App Store (quick and easy!)
• Open the newly installed Cisco Webex Meetings App
• Enter your name and email address (don’t worry, nobody else will be able to see these details)
• You’re in!

To Join from a Computer:

• Click this link 
• On the next screen, enter your first name, last name, email address (password should already be filled in but if it gets deleted accidentally, it’s end poverty. 
• Clicking ‘Join by Browser’ just underneath these fields is the easiest way to join 
• You’re in!

If you already have the Cisco Webex Meetings App:

• Open the App
• Click Join Meeting
• Enter Meeting Number 719 671 765
• Enter your name and email address (don’t worry nobody else will be able to see these details)
• You’re in!

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Join fellow global citizens, inspiring activists and unlikely champions of our natural environment as we celebrate World Environment Day 2020! 

Experts have claimed that COVID-19 restrictions have presented an opportunity to reset our environmental future. While we have seen some short term benefits such as a drop in emissions, air and water quality improvements in many areas and images of animals coming out to breed and play. We know that those living in extreme poverty are affected disproportionately by the climate crisis, but we must be careful about claiming an environmental win amongst the tragedy of COVID-19. The situation is still unfolding, and much will depend on what we do next. 

GUEST SPEAKERS //

Jack River

Jack River is the moniker of Holly Rankin, the songwriter, producer and climate activist making grit and glitter fuelled music for the revolution. Following the release of her ARIA-nominated debut record Sugar Mountain, and her Peking Duk collaboration - Sugar, River has toured extensively playing to sold-out headline shows around the country. Kicking off the new decade by releasing a follow-up EP Stranger Heart with neon-lit singles Later Flight and Dark Star, she will also be taking her captivating show on a tour of North America later this year. 

In between touring and recording, she is the mastermind behind Grow Your Own Festival in her hometown of Forster which celebrates music, art, food and agriculture of the region.

Andy Ridley

Andy is recognised as one of the world’s most successful environmental movement creators. As co-founder and CEO of Earth Hour, he grew the campaign from an idea on the back of a beer coaster in Sydney to the world’s largest environmental action, spanning 7,000 cities in over 164 countries, and reaching more than 2.8 billion people globally. Inspired by a conversation between Sir David Attenborough and Barack Obama, Andy has turned his focus to a new challenge, creating a 21st-century ocean conservation organisation, Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef. The program aims to aid the protection and conservation of the Great Barrier Reef and reefs all over the world, using tech, data and a new collaborative approach to conservation.

Before founding both Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef and Earth Hour, Andy led the rapid growth and evolution of Circle Economy in Amsterdam. He believes the circular economy provides many of the answers to some of the biggest environmental challenges that we face as the global population grows beyond nine billion, and we attempt to address our greatest generational challenge of climate change.

Misha Coleman

Misha commenced working in climate policy in 1997 at AusAID/DFAT where she was involved in developing a government position to take to the Kyoto negotiations. She has also worked in several developing countries in health-related capacities including as the Health Advisor to Care Australia in Vietnam during the Avian Influenza pandemic. Holding a Masters Degree in Environmental Law, Misha has previously led the Australian Government's agricultural science department at the Australian Embassy in Vietnam.

Misha now leads the Global Health Alliance Australia - a peak body representing 48 global health organisations and is the Mayor of the City of Yarra, an inner suburb Melbourne council that will shortly release its first Climate Emergency Plan under her leadership. 

Misha was invited to discuss the health impacts of climate change with Federal MPs and Senators at the launch of the re-established Parliamentary Friends of Climate Action in October 2019, and she looks forward to hearing your views too!

MODERATOR //

Sarah Meredith

Sarah Meredith is Global Citizen's Australian Country Director, overseeing the movement's efforts in Australia. Sarah comes to the role with more 13 years experience advising a number of Australia's federal and state government Cabinet Ministers, including working as a Senior Adviser to the Australian Minister for the Environment.

Sarah has been an active member of the community and was named as the City of Casey's Young Citizen of the Year in 2002 as part of the Australia Day Honours. Sarah has represented Australia at a number of local and national forums, including as one of 50 young Australians selected to be a member of the Australian Government's National Youth Roundtable, and one of Australia's representatives to the 'Young People Can Change the World' World Youth Forum in Wales in 2001. Sarah has completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne and a Master of International and Community Development at Deakin University.

This is a FREE event open to everyone, but we have limited places available, so please register your attendance! Closer to the time, you will receive a link to join this online event via Cisco WebEx. 

The event will kick off at 11am sharp with a panel discussion followed by the opportunity to submit questions to our guest speakers. We will conclude by 12pm.