The Schools Climate Action Conference will be held in ACT Youth Week in 2024. This is a chance for Year 9-12 students from all ACT schools to come together and design climate solutions for their community.

Schools are invited to send a group of students (up to eight) armed with a sustainability problem they would like to address. The conference will allow the students to work collaboratively with subject matter experts to design solutions, work on a pitch and become changemakers in our Climate Ready City.

Details:

ACT school students are invited to attend the 2024 Schools Climate Action Conference. They will come in groups of up to 8 with a sustainability problem at their school that they want to address. Students from Year 9 to Year 12 will spend the day workshopping solutions to their sustainability problem with subject matter experts, hearing from eminent changemakers in Canberra's sustainability scene, visiting stalls at an expo, creating an action plan, and giving a 30-second elevator pitch to their peers. This event will be catered and will accommodate dietary requirements.

Subject matter experts attending from:

Academy of Future Skills, ACT Education Directorate

Waterwatch ACT, Environment Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate

Climate Change and Behaviour Change Research, ANU

Science Communication and Energy Research, ANU

Transport Canberra & City Services

Landcare ACT and Molonglo Conservation Group

ACT NoWaste

Speakers:

MC - Associate Professor Leonie Pearson, Centre for Environmental Governance, UC

Minister Shane Rattenbury, Minister for Water, Energy, and Emissions Reduction, ACT Legislative Assembly

Dr Brook Clinton, Founder and CEO of Capital Scraps

Ms Fiona Wright, Deputy Director General, Water and Emissions Reduction, ACT Government

Professor Lachlan Blackhall, Entrepreneurial Fellow and Head, Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program, ANU

Ms Caitlin Buttress, General Manager, Engineers Australia ACT