WA Climate Awards lofi pilot 2023
WA Climate Leaders is focused on leadership and culture change so for our inaugural lofi pilot awards night we chose the categories of Innovation, Visibility, Integrity, Persistence and Ambition at Scale.
We came, we told stories and we celebrated…
Thursday night November 2 we held the lo-fi inaugural WA Climate Awards at The Local Hotel in Fremantle. We’ve been thinking for a year or so that awards would be another useful way to highlight climate action across WA but decided a test run was necessary.
As WA Climate Leaders is focussed on leadership and culture change around climate action in WA, there were five categories that highlighted some necessary qualities. Some entries were self-nominations and some nominations were made by appreciators.
An acknowledgement of country was made in Noongar by WA Climate Leaders board member Amy Steel before we got started.
In the category of Innovation, the nominees were Josh Hopkins, Blue Leaf Water Cremation, Anthony James, City of Stirling and Curtin University for the trackless tram project championed by Peter Newman, Sharka Hornakova of Donut Waste, The Sustainable Practitioners Network, Aimee Smith, Ian and Di Haggerty, Mei Wan Young Sidhu and Sophie Keates of Summer X Salt Markets, Alexander Bruce, Mia Pitassi of Skipping Stones Refillery.
The winner was Josh Hopkins for his data-driven nonprofit Open Corridor on a mission to democratise sustainability intelligence through open collaboration and innovation.
In the category of Visibility – courageous acts - the nominees were Disrupt Burrup Hub, Mardudhanera women Raelene Copper and Josie Alec with the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO), ACCR lead analyst and Alex Hillman, Larissa Taylor, Peter Klinken and Hannah Bres of Green Nutrition Australia.
The winners were Raelene Cooper and Josie Alec for their huge personal commitment (including undertaking the successful Cooper v NOPSEMA lawsuit with the EDO) to protect Murujuga and their Songlines from offshore oil and gas developments.
In the category of Integrity – climate justice the nominees were Professor Petra Tschakert, Piers Verstegen, Dr Bradley Hiller, Senator Jordon Steele-John and Dr Brad Pettitt MLC.
The winner was Petra Tschakert, Professor of Global Futures at Curtin University who has made a huge contribution to academia throughout her fascinating career. A coordinating lead IPCC author on climate adaptation, she brings a voice for just action to support vulnerable humans and the multiple species on our planet in everything she does.
In the category of Persistence, - grit the nominees were Catrina Luz Aniere and Milllennium Kids, AgZero2030 chair Simon Wallwork, Jeff Pow and Michelle McManus of Southampton Homestead, Louise Edmonds at CarbonSync, Eron Osborn of Rockingham Beach CleanUps, the End Forest Mining Campaign and Lucile bourguet.
The winner was Catrina Luz Aniere and Millennium Kids for presenting their Agents of Climate Change program findings at the State Government , the Standing Committee on Climate Education, the Department of Communities and Minister for Environment and Climate Action, as well as ensuring
Young Australians are heard locally and globally. Catrina is nominated for her long-standing commitment to working at a grassroots level with our future generations.
In the category of Ambition at scale the nominees were East Kimberley Clean Energy Project, Jessica Panegyres, Rebecca James, Vanessa Rauland, Kala Ranee Senitharajah, Adam Carrel, Nick Cook of WA Tree Canopy Advocates, and Bill Hare CEO and senior scientist at Climate Analytics.
The winner was Bill Hare who has seen the climate story unfold right from the start. As CEO of Climate Analytics, a lead IPCC Author, among those who won the Nobel Prize with Al Gore in 2007. Bill has made a huge impact working to support the interests of small island nations - at the frontline of climate change impacts.Through his role on the UN High Level Expert Group on Net Zero he has amplified the voice of scientists to the highest global levels and reach, whilst still finding the time to campaign locally in WA.
Warmest appreciation goes to Amy Steel and Lily Jovic for being the dream team in bringing this together and to Aimee Smith, Karen Monaghan and new dad Luke Sweet for their contributions as WA Climate Leaders Board Members this year. And love to Marnie Richardson Photographer for capturing these great images for us.
And to all of you who attended the event we can’t thank you enough for your support and for the high vibes you brought to the lo-fi WA Climate Awards pilot event.
We can safely say that the concept is proven. Bring on 2024.
Full gallery of images by the exceptional Marnie Richardson Photographer are here:
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Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.
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