2021-03-09 P&E Agenda - Item 8 - Attachment 1 - Climate Change Response Plan

          SUMMARY OF ACTIONS
The following identifies strategic priorities and specific actions for the next 5 years. Actions with budget implications that sit outside normal operational
costs are shown in bold.

 Strategic Priorities                       Specific actions                                              Indicators                                Timing
 What are our priorities for the next 5     How will we achieve our strategic priorities?                 How will we measure effectiveness or      Year 1 – 2020/21
 years?                                                                                                   success of risk mitigation or emissions   Year 2 – 2021/22
                                                                                                          reduction efforts?                        Year 3 – 2022/23
 Theme 1 – Strong leadership and governance
 1.1 Advocate to levels of government        Advocate to the other local governments is                   Number of advocacy actions to           Ongoing
 and mobilise the community to drive          Queensland and Australia for them to declare a                other local governments
 decisive climate emergency action.           climate emergency/take climate action and adopt net
                                              zero emissions targets in line with climate science

                                             Advocate to the Federal government to increase               Number of advocacy actions to           Ongoing
                                              support for renewable energy, transitioning to a low          the Federal Government
                                              carbon economy, and addressing climate risk impacts
                                              from coastal hazards, flooding, drought, heat risk,
                                              bushfires and biodiversity loss.

                                             Advocate for legislative change to allow for Council to      Whether action is completed             Ongoing
                                              facilitate Environmental Upgrade Finance to enable
                                              eligible parties to access low risk finance for
                                              environmental building upgrades.

                                             Develop an advocacy and community mobilisation               Whether action is completed             Year 2
                                              plan to prepare advocacy positions on a wide ranging
                                              of state and federal issues and to educate and assist
                                              community groups, residents and others to become


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Noosa Climate Change Response Plan - draft for council endorsement March 2021