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Climate Justice Alliance

A grassroots network of Territory-based social and environmental justice organisations that are passionate about community awareness, climate literacy, preparedness, and adaptation.

A Territory-Based Alliance for Climate Justice

The Northern Territory is on the frontline of climate change. Rising sea levels, intensifying heat, and extreme weather events are already affecting communities—particularly those in remote areas and Aboriginal homelands. Many are experiencing increasing food insecurity, limited access to safe drinking water, and unreliable, unaffordable energy.

At the same time, the NT is home to some of Australia’s most threatened ecosystems. Savanna woodlands and mangrove habitats are collapsing at alarming rates, with climate change accelerating this ecological breakdown.

In response to these growing challenges, Jesuit Social Services helped establish the Climate Justice Alliance in 2019—a Territory-based collective of climate, environmental, union, and community-led organisations committed to justice for people and planet.

Facilitated by Jesuit Social Services, the Alliance fosters collaboration across diverse sectors to strengthen local responses to climate change. Over the past three years, the Alliance has run workshops and forums in Darwin and Alice Springs, building relationships and amplifying community voices in climate adaptation and resilience planning.

We’ve all heard of climate change. But we understand there can be obstacles to people taking action, including a lack of understanding of climate science and feeling overwhelmed in the face of such a monumental problem.

Ned Bible

NT Climate Justice Coordinator, Jesuit Social Services

What we do

The Climate Justice Alliance works to:

  • Build climate literacy among community members and the community services sector

  • Support a just transition that centres ecological justice, economic alternatives, and adaptation

  • Equip local organisations to understand climate risk and embed climate planning in their operations

  • Advocate for inclusive, place-based approaches to climate adaptation that centre those most affected

Our vision

We envision a Northern Territory where:

  • Local governments, health services, and community organisations actively plan for climate impacts

  • Communities are empowered to shape climate solutions that reflect their needs, culture, and place

  • Justice—social, economic, and ecological—is at the heart of all climate decision-making

The Climate Justice Alliance is committed to working alongside communities to ensure that no one is left behind in the face of the climate crisis.

The Climate Justice Alliance has released a new temperature projection resource to support communities across the Northern Territory to understand the scale of future heat risk. Drawing on data from the Climate Council of Australia, the resource maps projected temperature increases for 2050 and 2090 across 72 Territory communities under three Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scenarios: taking no action, continuing the current trajectory, or taking the necessary steps to mitigate the climate crisis.

The projections highlight an urgent need for equitable climate action and highlight the compounding pressures of rising temperatures, increasing humidity, and existing socioeconomic vulnerability factors that together intensify risks to community health and wellbeing.

The findings point to profound implications for the Territory’s future. Extreme heat and humidity projections (already reflected in recent Central Australian heat records) signal severe risks for communities, particularly those in remote areas facing energy poverty and water insecurity.

These insights reinforce the need for a Climate Change Act, renewed commitments to net zero and renewable energy targets, and strengthened investment in place-based, community-led adaptation to protect the health and wellbeing of all people and places across the Northern Territory.

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Submission: The Climate Justice Alliance NT response to the Federal Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence and Data Centres

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Joint Position Statement of The Climate Justice Alliance NT in response to the National Climate Risk Assessment

This document is the Climate Justice Alliance’s formal response to the National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) which was released in September 2025 and is the nation’s first comprehensive climate risk assessment.

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Media release: Extreme heat rapidly making the Northern Territory unliveable, says Climate Justice Alliance NT

Published on 4 February, 2026

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Resource: Understanding how extreme heat is affecting the Northern Territory

The Climate Justice Alliance developed this document to outline the specific ways in which extreme heat is driving poor health outcomes, particularly across Aboriginal communities and homelands. It also outlines several actions you can take to reduce the impact of extreme heat on you and your communities.

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To find out more information about the Climate Justice Alliance, please contact Dr. Ned Bible at [email protected].