2020-07-07 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   7 JULY 2020




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PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                            7 JULY 2020

Scope of Climate Emergency Australia — first 12 months
The scope of CEA is below, with a focus on the first two items:
    e   External advocacy: Developing public advocacy campaigns and joint messaging
    e   Governance and operational: Developing a framework and supporting tools for what it means to
        declare, and governance around this
    e   Collaborating with others:
            ©   Coordinating climate emergency projects e.g. developing best practice advise / toolkits, joint
                procurement
            oO  Sharing resources and knowledge between councils across Australia through discussion groups,
               workshops, webinars

 3) The first 12 months
This initiative will be run for a start-up period of 12 months and will not have a formal membership structure
 during this first year. Councils can be part of the movement by contributing their time, signing up to the
 messaging and advocacy activity, and sharing good practice — these are “CEA Councils”. CEA will be funded by
 “Founding Funders” - councils who see the benefit in working together with other councils, acknowledge this
 needs resources to get it started, can afford to contribute, and are willing to provide funding to receive the
 mutual benefits that coordinating this work together brings rather than a direct return to themselves. This
 allows any council that is committed to the aims of CEA and acknowledge that this is not business as usual
 climate change work to be involved rather than just those who can contribute funds. At the end of the 12
 months an appropriate ongoing governance structure for CEA will be established following a review.

4) Governance structure
 For the first year the work of the Coordinator will be overseen by a Strategic Advisory Group of council officers
 and councillors, made up of Founding Funders as well as other councils to ensure a representation of different
 council sizes and geographical location. A Terms of Reference outlines their work.

 Governance           Representation             Meeting            Focus/role
 Group                                           frequency
 CEA Strategic        Senior Staff              Monthly             Ensure oversight and high level
Advisory Group        Councillors                                   guidance of the work of CEA
                      Includes founding funders
 CEA Working Groups   CEA Strategic Advisory     As required        Potential working groups:
— groups TBC          Group members                                 @   CEA Framework development
                      CEA Coordinator                               e   Embedding CE within your
                      CEA Councils                                      council
                                                                    e   Messaging development
                                                                    e   Advocacy campaigns
 CEA Host             Host organisation          N/A                e   Procure the services of the
 organisation                                                           Coordinator in consultation with
                                                                        the NDG
                                                                    e   §=Provide day-to-day line
                                                                        management of the Coordinator
                                                                    e   Report back to Founding
                                                                        Funders monthly

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