What is Climate Justice?
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are already impacted by rising seas, habitat loss, extreme heat, flooding, and fires caused by a warming planet.
Climate change is an issue of environmental and social justice. It is an issue that affects everybody, but the impacts are not evenly distributed. Too often, it’s the people who have contributed the least to the causes of climate change that are facing the most severe impacts.
Seed is committed to ensuring that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people are supported to lead the movement for climate justice and ensure our voice is heard on issues that impact our future.
What is Fracking?
At present, Australia is the largest exporter of LNG in the world and Western Australia is the biggest producer of LNG in Australia.
"Fracking" is a controversial mining practice which involves injecting a high-pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into the rock, which creates fractures or cracks, allowing the oil or gas to flow more freely to the wellbore for extraction.
One of Australia's most pristine and iconic regions, Western Australia's Kimberley, could see at least 2,000 fracking wells and as many as 8,700 over the next 20 years, for fossil gas production that would seriously undermine Australia's ability to meet its climate goals.
Resources
We’ve got a bunch of helpful tools and guides to support you in your climate justice journey. Whether you’re planning a campaign, developing an understanding of the impacts of extractive industries on Country, learning about First Nations-led solutions, or just getting started, these resources have got you covered. Download, share, and take action—together, we can protect country, culture, and climate!
Take Action nowWhat’s Happening In the Kimberley?
Mining corporations such as Buru Energy, Black Mountain and more are seeking to frack the Basin after the State government opened the Kimberley up to fracking in 2018. Ensuring this gas remains largely untouched in the ground is essential to avoiding the projected increase in extreme heat and many other devastating impacts of climate change. The increase in extreme temperatures would disproportionately impact remote regions such as the Kimberley; putting Country, culture, and communities at severe risk.
How To Be A Better AllyStand With Us For Climate Justice
We've made this booklet as an educational resource, and as a tool for you to consider how you can be a better First Nations ally advocating for climate justice.
Being an ally is a critical action to support and uplift First Nations voices, actions, campaigns, and culture, in and out of the climate movement.
ResourcesMaps
In 2023, a record number of 24,830 mining tenements covered 29 per cent of Western Australia - and around 9.3 per cent of the Kimberley.
With 51% of the Northern Territory also under mining leases and governments relaxing EPA laws to encourage investment in extractive industries, corporations pay little tax and Country is being sold off for pittance. Just what is at stake?
These maps show how First Nations communities and Country are under threat.
Videos
Check out our videos and hear from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices on the frontlines, as they fight to stop the causes and effects of a changing climate.
Seed creates spaces and opportunities for First Nations communities and those on the frontline to be central in the creative storytelling, community conversations and climate solutions for a just climate future.
First Nations Climate Solutions
First Nations people have been caring for Country for thousands of years, are deeply connected to place, and have developed and used Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) to manage the land, water, and climate in sustainable and regenerative ways. Using this his intergenerational wisdom First Nations communities lead the way in creating climate solutions that protect both the environment and cultural heritage.
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Seed amplifies the voices of frontline communities most affected by climate change, recognising that they hold the knowledge and solutions for a climate-just future.
Find out more about our community led campaigns supported by First Nations youth to protect Country, culture, community, and climate.
We will also send you updates about our impact work with communities on the frontlines, actions from our Grassroots Network, or ways you can take action to influence policymaking decisions and create impact.
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