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Seq Regional Climate Resilient Alliance · Attachment 1 - Seqcra Fact Sheet
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SEQCRA
SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND
CLIMATE RESILIENT ALLIANCE
Fact Sheet A Climate Resilient Alliance is being established in South East Queensland to formalise a
regional partnership between SEQ Councils to respond to climate change collaboratively.
What is a Climate Alliance?
A Climate Alliance is a membership-based partnership between Local Governments across a region dedicated to
addressing the challenges and opportunities of climate change. The formalised partnership of a Climate Alliance provides
a platform for regional collaboration on projects, knowledge sharing, and advocacy.
Background to establishment SEQCRA's purpose is
to proactively respond
In April 2021, five SEQ councils jointly received Queensland Climate Resilient Councils to climate change and
funding to undertake a pilot project. The pilot project assessed best-practice models of build resilience by
regional collaboration between Local Governments on climate change. From this work, delivering consistent,
staff from 11 SEQ Councils have been working to refine the membership and governance
collaborative activity
structure to deliver a dedicated Climate Resilience Alliance for SEQ that could accelerate
at a scale and pace
emissions reduction, support regional transition and build climate resilience for
communities across the region. beyond what individual
councils can achieve
Purpose & Function alone.
A regional Climate Alliance will provide a network for knowledge sharing, a formal partnership for joint region-wide
projects and a platform for advocacy.
Regional Membership fees fund an Alliance Coordinator who becomes a shared resource for the region.
Coordination This person will apply for grants and funding, and coordinate shared projects.
The Alliance provides an opportunity for peer learning between Council members and can offer
Knowledge support with critical decision-making. Members form a Brains Trust, share expertise, technical
Sharing knowledge, best practice innovation and strategy development.
The Alliance enables members to work on large scale projects collaboratively to build regional
Projects solutions, and jointly apply for larger pools of funding to finance them.
Addressing legislative barriers and updating policy is key to effectively addressing climate
Advocacy risks and gaining strategic support. The Alliance can provide regional guidance and
leadership on climate change for the benefit of SEQ.
Benefits
Councils working together can achieve greater impact through joint projects and initiatives.
SEQCRA Vision:
Working collaboratively can reduce costs to members through economies of scale, bulk buys,
purchasing agreements and sharing resources. Two Climate Alliances in Australia report a SEQ is a climate
return on investment of up to 7.1 times membership fees. Other benefits include:
resilient region and
Cost savings on joint projects Climate risk reduction home to low carbon,
Access to large pools of funding Regional solutions to emissions healthy, prosperous,
Project management support reduction and adaptation
and environmentally
Reduced duplication of effort Increased coherence and coordination
Access to expertise and best practice across SEQ region
sustainable
Collaborative leverage of councils' capacities Consistent regional climate messaging communities.
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SEQCRA
SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND
CLIMATE RESILIENT ALLIANCE
Members All SEQ Councils will be invited to join the SEQ Climate Resilient Alliance.
Members will pay an annual fee and allocate representatives to sit on the
SEQCRA Executive Steering Committee and SEQCRA Coordination
Committee to ensure all initiatives provide value to its members and the
region. The following Councils will be invited to join SEQCRA:
Brisbane City Council Noosa Shire Council
Gold Coast City Council Redland City Council
Ipswich City Council Scenic Rim Regional Council
Lockyer Valley Regional Council Somerset Regional Council
Logan City Council Sunshine Coast Regional Council
Moreton Bay Regional Council Toowoomba Regional Council
Membership Governance Coordination and
SEQCRA membership will involve: SEQCRA governance is based upon the Funding
Annual fees, based on a sliding scale successful, robust and equitable Membership fees will form the annual
according to population. structures of other Alliances in budget for SEQCRA. The annual
3 years commitment via MOU Australia: budget will deliver projects and
Allocation of one executive employ an Alliance Coordinator to
Executive Steering Committee:
representative to sit on the Executive administer the Alliance, apply for
Steering Committee, meeting comprised of member representatives to
grants and funding, coordinate
quarterly. steer and manage Alliance work.
governance and deliver projects.
Allocation of one sustainability staff Coordination Committee: Larger projects may require external
member to sit on the Coordination funding and additional
comprised of sustainability staff to
Committee, meeting monthly. co-contribution from each member.
manage projects and technical work.
Responding to Climate Change Impacts and Risks
SEQCRA is being
Climate change will continue to impact the way councils plan, operate and deliver formed from a
infrastructure and community services. It is becoming critical for councils to understand and
identify their climate risks and ensure that they are able to adapt their operations to provide collective need to
ongoing service to their communities in the face of climate change. To transition to a zero work together to
emissions future with a changing climate, council staff are re-considering the way they
procure goods and services to decarbonise supply chains; planning and designing facilities and
effectively respond
infrastructure to be climate resilient; and responding to climate-related disaster events. To to climate change.
become climate resilient, councils need support.
Climate Regional Working Cost
Change approach together Savings
Each Council is exposed to The challenges of climate A coordinated and Alliance members achieve
climate risks and responsible change do not stop at collaborative approach builds cost savings through
for managing a wide range of municipal boundaries but are capacity and resilience, economies of scale, bulk
climate change challenges shared across SEQ. reduces duplication of effort, buys, shared resources and
that are shared. Currently, A regional approach can and enables Alliance joint effort. Alliance members
this work is often done in provide consistency and a members to be supported in will have increased access to
isolation with limited funds more unified response to critical decision making and funding and opportunitites.
and resources. climate change. initiatives.
Next Steps and invitations for Founding Membership will follow. For more information please contact your sustainability staff.
More information about the SEQ Climate Resilient Alliance will continue to be circulated. Opportunities for formal briefing