2021-08-10 P&E Agenda - Item 7 - Attachment 1 - Climate Change Response Plan

          Noosa Shire Council




  Community reference forum
  Noosa Council will establish a climate change community reference group to strengthen
  accountability, transparency, and cooperation. Representatives of the group will be able to discuss
  and provide advice on climate change issues, on-ground action, barriers and successes, monitoring
  and evaluation, and ongoing program development. This group will be an important component of
  plan implementation given that many of the actions in the CCRP require a partnership approach
  across a range of sectors. This includes working with community groups that form part of the existing
  Zero Emissions Memorandum of Understanding.


  Resources and funding
  Potential funding sources will be actively pursued to enable ongoing implementation of the CCRP
  for both emissions reduction and climate resilience. This includes investigating opportunities for
  alternative revenue sources. This could include linking activities that occur locally and that derive
  revenue within the community with delivery of real on-ground actions, such as Trees for Tourism in
  the hinterland, other funding for urban greening projects, or funding for science-based programs that
  monitor long term environmental and climate risks.
  Council has been awarded grant funding for climate risk and resilience through a number of
  programs in recent years amounting to around $3 million in funding for Noosa Council and for
  cleantech business development. Some of these include:

   Grants                                  Funding source            Funding to council       Year
                                                                                              commenced
  Climate Risk Management Strategy         State government,         $210,000 in              2021
  grant – to develop a climate action      administered through      collaboration with
  roadmap for the broader Sunshine         LGAQ                      Sunshine Coast
  Coast region                                                       Regional Council
  Climate Resilience Alliances Pilot grant State government          $100,000 in              2021
  – to develop an alliance to accelerate funding, administered       collaboration with SEQ
  the delivery of on-ground climate        through LGAQ              councils
  transition and adaptation actions
  Regional Tourism Bushfire Recovery       AusTrade – Federal        $100,000                 2020/21
  grant – Firetech conference for          Government                $50,000
  bushfire resilience through technology   Additional contribution
  innovation                               from State government
  Firetech 2020 Program – incubator        AusIndustry – Federal     $100,000                 2020
  support, expert in residence             Government
  Queensland Bushfires Local Economic Qld Reconstruction             $1,894,503               2019
  Recovery Program – funding for new      Authority (QRA) - State
  fire tech laboratory including projects Government
  for environmental monitoring and data
  generation
  QCoast 2100 coastal hazard program       State government,         $490,000                 2016
  - to develop a Coastal Hazard            administered through
  Adaptation Plan for coastal erosion,     LGAQ
  tidal inundation and sea level rise

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