Check our 3-year update report to the Congregation on progress with our Climate Action Plan

Let’s all commit ourselves to building a just, caring and sustainable future for God’s Earth and all its creatures.

KEY POINTS

  • BUC is effectively carbon neutral through its purchase of Green energy from Diamond Energy
  • BUC will further reduce its emissions as it continues to replace or improve the efficiency of various appliances, avoid unnecessary usage, further improve insulation, and investigate additional solar collectors.
  • To put BUC emissions into context, its annual emissions are roughly equivalent to 2 typical suburban households. If we could influence our 250 individual members to take personal household action, this would result in a much greater impact on reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.
  • BUC may achieve even greater impact if our members further engage in campaigns to influence businesses (both local and large-scale) and government, working in collaboration with religious and/or secular groups.

Read the 3-year update report for the congregation.

Read the 3-year update report appendices.

CoPower – Take the Power back
The Uniting Church of Australia (Vic/Tas) is now a proud member of CoPower, a non-profit cooperative. CoPower’s mission is to take action against the climate crisis, tackle poverty and build community through energy

By switching your congregation’s or your own energy supplier over to Cooperative Power, you’re helping to take the power back from huge energy corporations, for the benefit of people and our planet.

Cooperative Power is a newly formed non-profit cooperative for Australia’s energy sector. Together we’re creating a better way to buy energy – one where we can have our say in how it’s created and how much it costs.

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Electrify Everything! – Moving Australia to a Renewable Future

Rewiring Australia’s Mobilisation and Engagement Manager Kristen McDonald talked to us about what this involves, why it matters and how we can all take steps to make the transition to clean energy a reality.

This event is part of the Uniting Church in NSW.ACT’s Living the Change series of information forums. Living the Change explores ways individuals and households can reduce their own carbon footprint and care for the environment as part of faith and life.