Dja Dja Wurrung’s Climate Change Strategy 2023-2034 is a 10 year management plan which highlights how First Nations expertise, sciences and culture can deliver dynamic and transformative responses to the climate crisis, at both a regional and national scale.

Mismanagement of Country on djandak (Dja Dja Warung land) and all over the world has turned our climate ‘upside-down’. The pollution of ‘wura-wura-yi djaa’ (sky Country) is fueled by the extractive and profit-oriented values central to colonial land management, and where Country has been treated as a commodity rather than as an entity with rights and ‘murrun’ (spirit). In response to the inherent instability of a climate in flux, the Dja Dja Warung Aboriginal Corporation have outlined their Climate Change Strategy, launched in 2023 as a manual entitled Turning ‘wrong way’ Climate, ‘right way’.

The manual outlines solutions to climate change which are both holistic and transformative, focusing on returning ‘murrun’ (spirit) to ‘djandak’ (Dja Dja Warung land). The climate change strategy seeks to outline best practices for Dja Dja Warung land in order for its people and Country to lead in minimising emissions, and the reduction of waste. The strategy is oriented towards that care and stewardship of future generations, enabling communities to inherit a landscape that heals through cultural management, whilst ensuring people are healthy, so that Country can be healthy too.

This text was the result of online research and a reading of the publication, borrowing from the publisher's official introduction.