2020-12-08 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                               8 DECEMBER 2020


Community Engagement
   Assist community groups to reduce their electricity consumption, costs and emissions
     through Council grants (status – ongoing)
   Investigate opportunities for Council to assist the Noosa community reduce emissions as part
     of the Noosa Council Climate Change Response Plan currently in development.

Previous Council Consideration

Ordinary Meeting Minutes, 18 January 2018, Item 8, Page 6
That Council note the report by the Project Officer - Carbon Reduction to the General Committee
Meeting dated 15 January 2018 regarding the Zero Emissions Noosa Organisational Action Plan
2017-2020 and:
A.   Approve the Net Zero Emissions Noosa Organisational Action Plan 2017-2020; and
B.   As a member of the Climate Council Cities Power Partnership pledge to take action and
     report on the following key actions;
     1.    Install renewable energy (solar PV and battery storage) on Council buildings;
     2.    Support community facilities accessing renewable energy through incentives, support
           or grants;
     3.    Implement landfill gas methane flaring or capture for electricity generation;
     4.    Adopt best practice energy efficiency measures across all Council buildings and
           support community facilities to adopt these measures; and
     5.    Encourage sustainable transport use (public transport, walking and cycling) through
           Council transport planning and design.
Ordinary Meeting Minutes, 19 May 2016, Item 2, Page 10
That Council note the report by the Executive Manager to the Planning and Environment Committee
Meeting dated 10 May 2016 and the further report to the General Committee Meeting dated 16
May 2016 and adopt the Emission Reduction Policy provided at Attachment 1 to the General
Committee Report.
Finance
In 2019/20 a capital budget of $500,000 was allocated to the ZEN implementation project.
The ZEN Project Control Group reviewed the ERM Energy recommendations from the MACC and
determined the projects to be undertaken in the 2019/20 financial year in accordance with the
following criteria:
   Emissions reduction per $ spend;
   Building works status of each facility;
   Capital cost; and
   Total emission reduction achieved.
The capital projects (outlined above) were completed within budget.
Risks & Opportunities Strategic Risks
The 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report 5 has warned that there is
only 12 years in which to take significant global action to keep global warming to a maximum of
1.5oC, beyond which increases the risk of lasting and irreversible changes to global biodiversity,
ecosystem integrity, human health, food security and economic growth.
Without continued action to reduce Council’s own emissions, there is a risk that Council is not
taking its share of responsibility to deal with global climate change, the effects of which will be
exacerbated in the Noosa Shire.

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