Climate Action Week Sydney

Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion

Community-led Sustainable Cities puts a spotlight on food, waste and climate-resilience solutions co-designed with more than 400 locals across Sydney. Hear residents and researchers share how neighbourhood ideas are becoming practical, place-based projects that reimagine what a sustainable inner city looks like when communities lead.

Visualisation Institute

From poetic to darkly funny, this evening of readings, sound and performance crosses species boundaries to explore how stories change our responses to biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. Join UTS artists, writers and musicians as they invite you to listen differently and imagine new ways of living on a damaged planet.

TD School

Australia stands at a crossroads. This interactive session invites you to imagine a future where First Nations lore, ecological intelligence and intergenerational responsibility guide climate decisions. Step out of a “situationship” with Country and into a committed relationship built on reciprocity, shared power and life-affirming systems.

Faculty of Design and Society

The future of fashion is in the upcycled fabric. In this live showcase, UTS and TAFE designers partner with DISSH to transform faulty returns into new garments, revealing creative pathways to circular fashion. See damaged stock become treasure and hear how industry and education can remake fashion from the seams up.

Feeling the limits of technical fixes? This reflective workshop is for people working on climate action and social transitions who sense deeper change is needed. Explore how worldviews, values, power, care and responsibility shape our work, and how cultivating inner capacity can unlock more just, regenerative pathways for change.

Green Infrastructures Lab

One Central Park’s dramatic green walls have become a Sydney landmark—but what does it really take to keep a vertical forest alive? Hear from the designers, engineers and maintenance teams behind this pioneering project as they share candid lessons about performance, cost, risk and scaling urban greening in real cities.

Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF)

Renting and roasting in summer or freezing in winter? Bring your questions to this practical climate clinic. Researchers from the Institute for Sustainable Futures and UTS Business School share cheap, renter-friendly ways to weather-proof homes, cut energy bills and stay comfortable—and help you design a personalised action plan

Faculty of Design and Society

The built environment is one of the world’s biggest climate levers, yet sustainable buildings are still treated as niche. This session unpacks how design, policy, finance and culture are nudging Australian buildings towards net zero, and what it will take to make low-carbon, climate-resilient spaces the everyday norm.

Climate KIC / Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF)

Data centres are infamous energy and water guzzlers, yet they underpin our digital lives. With demand projected to soar, can they shift from climate villains to climate enablers? Join experts in technology, policy and finance to explore new models that turn data hubs into engines of resilience and renewable energy.

Faculty of Design and Society

Grab scissors, pens and big ideas. In this hands-on workshop you’ll explore the triple planetary crisis—climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss—then collaborate on a zine that turns concern into creativity. Leave with inky fingers, new connections and a shared publication that keeps conversations about sustainability moving.