On 29 January 2020, WATCH produced the following media release: 2019 was Australia’s hottest and driest year on record, heralding Australia’s longest bushfire season. Locally records were also broken, with Border Mail letters to the editor on climate change hitting an all-time high and signalling strong community support for climate action. Wodonga Albury Toward Climate…
This media release became The Border Mail’s front page story on 9 October 2018. Media release – 8/10/18 Today the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C and emission pathways to achieve this goal, a report described by the authors as one of the…
MEDIA RELEASE – 2 NOVEMBER 2015 This has been Australia’s hottest October on record and Albury’s day-time temperatures were 5.8 degrees Celsius warmer than average. Lizette Salmon, spokesperson for Wodonga Albury Towards Climate Health (WATCH) said “The average Albury October day-time temperature is 21.2 degrees, but this year it was 27 degrees, a horrifying six…
The WATCH media release below resulted in an article in the Border Mail newspaper today (7 January 2015). — MEDIA RELEASE – WORLD’S HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD 6 January 2015 The year 2014 is potentially the hottest year on record across the world according to figures from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “Globally it’s almost certain…
Winter has officially begun, but more than 40 species of plants and animals in the region are behaving as if it is spring. “Roses, camellias, spring bulbs and native peas are blooming, summer vegies are producing past season, fruit trees are confused and certain bird species are showing nesting behaviours,” said Lizette Salmon, spokesperson for…
MEDIA RELEASE 13.11.13 What brings together an international sports star, an archdeacon, a wine guru and a financial CEO? Basketballer Lauren Jackson, Archdeacon Peter McLeod-Miller, John Brown of Brown Brothers and WAW Credit Union’s Peter Challis, together with fifty other eminent people from the Border region have signed a joint statement calling for all levels…
IMPACTS OF EXTREME WEATHER ON BORDER – MEDIA RELEASE – 22.2.13 [Submitted by Lizette Salmon] Pigs unable to breed and thousands of local chickens dying; these are just two of the more unusual local consequences of this summer’s extreme heat. “Bushfires, drought, crop losses and heat-related illnesses were consequences of climate change we anticipated in…
Community environment groups across the region are celebrating the news that Energetica Resources Pty Ltd has withdrawn its application for a coal seam gas (CSG) licence in south western NSW (i.e. the region to the north and north west of Corowa). “We are very pleased to hear that Energetica has withdrawn their application,” said Delwyn…
THE CRITICAL DECADE: New South Wales Climate Impacts and Opportunities Report by the Australian Climate Commission Download full report here. WATCH response to above report, compiled by Lizette Salmon. – – – The impacts of climate change described in the Climate Commission report did not come as a surprise to WATCH spokesperson, Lizette Salmon. “This…
WATCH offers it’s qualified to support to the government’s Clean Energy Future proposal, on the basis that it provides the foundation for increasingly strong emissions reduction measures to the level mandated by the scientific evidence.
Wodonga & Albury Toward Climate Health (WATCH) 