2019-07-15 General Committee Meeting Notes

RECOMMENDATIONS ONLY – NOT THE FINAL DECISION OF COUNCIL
GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING                                                        15 JULY 2019


          advising of Council’s declaration and requesting they also act with urgency to address
          climate change through legislated programs and policy positions, to drive action to
          reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to keep global temperatures to a maximum
          increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
                                                                                           Lost.
    Amendment 3
    Moved:          Cr Jackson
    Seconded:       Cr Pardon
    That Item B be amended to read:
    B.    Write to the Prime Minister, the State Premier, State and Federal Opposition Leaders,
          and State and Federal Members of Parliament representing the Noosa Shire region,
          advising of Council’s declaration and requesting they also act with urgency to address
          climate change through legislated programs and policy positions, to drive action to
          reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to keep global temperatures to a maximum
          increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
                                                                                        Carried.


    Committee Recommendation
    Moved:           Cr Wellington
    Seconded:        Cr Glasgow
    That Council note the report by the Director Environment and Sustainable Development,
    Carbon Reduction officer and Climate Change Adaptation Program Coordinator to the
    Planning & Environment Committee Meeting dated 9 July 2019, and
    A.    Endorse the following statement:
          “Council accepts the latest science on climate change provided in the October 2018
          report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and acknowledges that the
          Noosa Shire is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change including heat waves, more
          intense storms and sea level rise all of which is likely to adversely affect the Noosa
          natural and human environment. Council therefore declares that we are in a ‘Climate
          Emergency” which requires urgent action by all levels of government”; and
    B.    Write to the Prime Minister, the State Premier, State and Federal Opposition Leaders,
          and State and Federal Members of Parliament representing the Noosa Shire region,
          advising of Council’s declaration and requesting they also act with urgency to address
          climate change through legislated programs and policy positions, to drive action to
          reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to keep global temperatures to a maximum
          increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
                                                                                        Carried.


 The meeting adjourned at 11.27am
 The meeting resumed at 11.35am
 Cr Wellington left the meeting.




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