Jesuit Social Services welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Net Zero Commission’s 2025 consultation process, as the Commission is shaping its work plan and developing the climate change and adaptation advice to be shared with the NSW Government.
Climate change demands urgent, ambitious, and sustained action to protect communities in NSW and build long-term resilience. As a community service organisation working directly with vulnerable communities, Jesuit Social Services sees firsthand how climate change disrupts lives, exacerbates existing hardships and deepens cycles of disadvantage.
In our submission we highlight the need and opportunity for the NSW Government to adopt a justice-centred approach within all climate mitigation and adaptation efforts. Our submission is grounded in:
- our place-based, community-led work in Western Sydney, based in Willmot and Emerton;
- our national research into locational disadvantage which forms the basis of the Dropping of the Edge report; and
- our ongoing advocacy for climate justice, including transformative climate action targeting the structures and systems that perpetuate disadvantage.
