Act on Climate (AoC)

AoC is the climate justice collective of Friends of the Earth Melbourne. We are a grassroots group of activists organising for environmental and social justice with a state-based climate focus. Our current campaigns support climate-impacted communities towards climate adaptation solutions in Victoria.

We are a nimble and adaptable grassroots collective that can respond to needs and gaps in environmental campaigning in Victoria, while always moving toward its long term goals. We work together with communities facing urban and regional climate impacts, unions, and other stakeholders to build climate resilience. The movement is community-led, pushing for stronger climate action from the government and taking initiative to create the conditions needed to withstand the crisis.

We are committed to taking solidarity action with aligned climate justice collectives and amplifying the work of allies. We believe that environmental and social justice are inextricably linked, and actively support those on the frontlines of both social and climate justice struggles.

We work from a climate justice perspective and understand that long lasting system change requires challenging the dominant interlinked and mutually reinforcing systems of oppression that we live in and under. We seek justice and liberation from all oppressive systems that devalue and exploit people and the environment, including patriarchy, colonialism, class oppression, capitalism, racism, ableism and heteronormativity.