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

 Membership of the Strategic Advisory Group
 The Strategic Advisory Group will consist of one or two elected representatives (Councillor/Mayor) or Senior
 Officers (a Director or Manager or equivalent) from each state and territory, from a council that has declared a
 climate emergency. Places on the Advisory Group are offered to individuals with the skills, ability and capacity to
 support CEA and not on a representative basis for individual councils. A nominee does not have to be from a
 Founding Funder council. There will be places for Founding Funders where required - the aim is to involve the
 Founding Funders but balance the numbers for a functioning Advisory Group. Nominations must be supported
 by officers or councillors from two other declared councils and received on the nomination form by 18 June
 2020.

 5) Operational structure

 Coordinator
 The Coordinator will:
        e   work with councils to develop a climate emergency delivery framework
        e develop joint climate emergency messaging to be shared between councils, subject to project
            funding
        e   create and deliver at least one major joint advocacy campaign, subject to project funding
        e   provide a platform for councils to communicate with each other and share resources
        e   identify key projects that are unique to climate emergency work and partners to deliver them
        e   investigate potential ongoing governance models
        e   review progress and governance towards the end of the 12-month period.

 CEA Councils
 CEA Councils are any councils (and those carrying out local government functions e.g. the ACT government) in
 Australia that are committed to the aims of CEA and acknowledge that this is not business as usual climate
 change work can state their interest in being involved in any piece of work. There is no formal mechanism to
 become a CEA Council.

 CEA Councils will:
     ¢  Share knowledge of what works and what doesn’t with each other
     ¢  Take part in joint advocacy campaigns
     ¢  Use jointly developed messaging in their public and internal communications
     ¢  Identify opportunities and resources for collaborative approaches to the climate emergency
     ¢  Work together and provide input to CEA projects, including in-kind and cash resources where possible
     ¢  Take part in Working Groups where interested and able
     ¢  Mentor councils wanting to declare a climate emergency
     ¢  Identify issues, barriers and opportunities in project implementation, and refer these to SAG

 Host organisation
 Following discussions with many state and national networks that support councils on climate change as well as
 interested councils, City of Melbourne has been confirmed as the host organisation for CEA. The host will:
     e  Procure the services of the Coordinator
     e  Provide day-to-day line management of the Coordinator
     e  Report back to the Founding Funders monthly

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