The newly-formed Indigo Extinction Rebellion has decided to postpone its first public action on Saturday.
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"Indigo XR" was inspired by the Albury-Wodonga group that began in 2019, and has been meeting since January.
An information kiosk and cycle around Beechworth shops were planned, but instead North East residents will be encouraged to "do five things for the planet".
"We have taken the decision to postpone a bigger broadcast of the message, because of the impact of the virus and the spike in Victoria, and the need to be socially responsible," Indigo XR spokeswoman Karen Bartsh said.
"We can't ignore the fact there is a climate emergency.
"People can still lobby their politicians, they can write letters from home, they can make contact with members of parliament to say 'we ended that leadership from the top'.
"Our list [of things people can do for the planet] includes things like divesting your superannuation from funds that invest in environmentally-destructive industries and practices, greening your electricity by sourcing it from renewable energy retailers and lobbying a politician to demand that our society and economy decarbonise by 2025."
Ms Bartsh said the same strength in messaging seen throughout the pandemic was needed on climate.
"People have socially isolated because the messages were coming loud and clear," she said.
"That message is not coming loud and clear form the top-down on the climate emergency. [But] we have scientists telling us we need to take action, the same as the scientists in the pandemic.
"The science around the climate emergency is settled, and we need to act upon this expert opinion in the same way we have accepted and acted upon the expert knowledge that guided our communities' response to COVID-19."
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Extinction Rebellion was established in the United Kingdom in 2018 and now has 64 branches in Australia.
It is pushing for the Australian government to declare a climate emergency, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025 and to create a citizens assembly on climate and ecological justice.
Ms Bartsh said "scary information" about the risks of not limiting global warming "shouldn't be shied away from".
"In fact, we believe that it is just the call to action that our communities need to put shoulders to the wheel and create genuine change towards a safe climate."
There will be large posters displayed on a shed near the Beechworth IGA owned by an Indigo XR member this weekend.
