2023-01-16 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   16 JANUARY 2023




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GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                         16 JANUARY 2023

             A shared responsibility

              This Regional Climate Action Roadmap           emissions, prepare for our changing climate,
              outlines a way forward for our collaborative   and be more resilient when hazards happen.
              partnership as Councils, and our commitment    Our key sectors, from the built environment
              to working with the community, key sectors,    and infrastructure, to tourism, agribusiness,
              and other levels of government to build our    community services and environment, need
              shared vision of a climate-ready region. This  to reduce their emissions and prepare their
              Roadmap is the start of a longer joumey to     own organisations for these hazards too. As
              collaboratively address climate change across  individuals and members of our community,
              the Sunshine Coast region.                     we have a responsibility to reduce our
                       .                          .          emissions, consider our own readiness, be
              As Councils, we have a key role to play in     informed, understand the consequences and
              addressing climate change by ensuring that     support our neighbours and communities to
              the services we provide are resilient to more  appropriately respond to climate hazards.
              frequent and extreme events and trends.
              We also have a responsibility to reduce our    We acknowledge that not everyone is
              carbon emissions to reduce the changes in      equally capable of preparing for, coping
              climate that are causing these hazards to be   with, or appropriately responding to, extreme
              more frequent and extreme.                     climatic hazards. We also recognise that
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              The impacts of climate change in our region    affordable or accessible for everyone within
              cannot be tackled by Councils alone - itis a   our community. As Councils, we will ensure
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              community. Peres an ongoing need Toy all       communities and advocate for the extra
              levels of government to provide leadership     support people need to ensure they do not get
              and support for our community to reduce their  left behind in our climate readiness journey.
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