2023-01-16 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                               16 JANUARY 2023


commitment to work with the community, key sectors and other levels of government to build a
shared vision of a climate-ready region.
The Roadmap includes three priority themes with a number of focus areas under each theme as
our next steps to build a climate-ready region. The priority themes are:
1.   BUILDING CLIMATE-READY COUNCILS
     This theme recognises that building the resilience of our own services to climate hazards is
     a core responsibility. Whilst each council operates as a separate organisation, there are
     significant benefits from working together to understand our climate risks and identify
     opportunities for improved services that deliver better outcomes.
2.   EMPOWERING CLIMATE-READY COMMUNITIES
     This theme recognises that preparing for a changing climate is everyone’s responsibility, but
     everyone needs the motivations, resources, and skills to enable them to prepare. Councils
     will continue to lead and support our community to meet their shared responsibilities in
     building a climate-ready region.
3.   ADVOCATING FOR A CLIMATE-READY REGION
     Some of our major local climate risks are created by decisions outside our region and outside
     the direct control of our councils. Councils must therefore continue to leverage their regional
     alliances to advocate for changes to State and Federal government legislation and policies
     that exacerbate local climate risks, and for improved funding for our regional climate change
     response.
The project included the following steps:
    Community survey
    Internal Council staff survey
    Information stocktake
    Governance assessment
    Internal workshop series
    External stakeholder roundtables
    Cross-leadership workshops
    Roadmap development
Subsequent phases of the LGAQ framework include detailed climate risk planning and
understanding of impacts on service delivery (Phase 2) and implementing climate actions (Phase
3).
Policy Alignment
CORPORATE PLAN
This project, and the intended next steps outlined in the Roadmap, align with the Corporate Plan’s
values of community, sustainability and innovation. It also aligns with:
    Theme 1, Key Focus Area 7: 'Plan our response to Climate Change’
     o   20-year goal: ‘Noosa Shire is better prepared for Climate Change’
    Theme 2, Focus 8 'Maintain the ability to respond to disaster events'
     o   20-year goal: ‘Council and the Noosa community are resilient in the face of
         emergencies and disaster events.’
    Theme 3, 20-year goal: ‘Our economy is diverse and resilient’
    Theme 4, 20-year goal: ‘Noosa Shire is well-managed and sustainable’
    Theme 5, Focus 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 11, and 13.


                                                                                   Page 44 of 122