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ICLEI World Congress: Edmonton, Canada, 14–18 June 2009
Additional North American Study Tour: 19–23 June 2009
ICLEI Oceania is planning a delegation of council representatives to attend the June 2009 ICLEI World Congress in Edmonton, Canada, and take part in a North American study tour.
We invite elected members, chief executives and senior managers from ICLEI member councils or campaign participants in Australia and New Zealand to express their interest.
If you are interested in joining the ICLEI Oceania 2009 World Congress and/or study tour delegation, download an Expression of Interest form.
Return your completed form to Milly Bartlett, Communications and Web Coordinator, Ph: +61 (0)3 9660 2246, Fax to +61 (0)3 9639 8677 by 31 January 2009.
- There are 138 ICLEI members in the Oceania region. We deeply value their support and encouragement and are always reviewing the benefits to make membership more purposeful and rewarding.
- ICLEI Oceania continued to place staff with member councils around Australia, in order to provide our members and program participants with tailored services and a local perspective. ICLEI Oceania staff are now hosted by the City of Melville, WA, the City of Campbelltown, SA, the City of Melbourne, Vic, Penrith City Council and the City of Sydney, NSW, and Wellington City Council, New Zealand. Brisbane City Council continues to support delivery of CCP Australia in Queensland.
- ICLEI Oceania’s Accelerating Now! Conference won a Melbourne Award and a Meetings and Events Industry (MEA) Victoria state award for our efforts to deliver a Green Event approach.
- ICLEI Oceania introduced an approach to link local government to small-to-medium enterprises with the Sustainable Industries Promotion on our website.
- InterfaceFLOR provided ICLEI Oceania with an entire floor of its environmentally friendly carpet. Our landlord will allocate the value of funds saved through our partnership with InterfaceFLOR towards retrofitting our building in order to make it more energy efficient.
- Victorian Abatement Practice Change Systems – New partnerships: Local Governments and Farmer Cooperation for Climate Protection. ICLEI Oceania undertook a project for the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) to determine how to effectively utilise the local government sector and associated networks to:
- identify opportunities for DPI to utilise the infrastructure and networks already created by ICLEI Oceania across local government and capitalise on these to support rural communities’ adaptive capacity to climate change
- explore the relationships in place between local government, the farming sector and the broader agricultural sector to determine where opportunities lie to make the most of these relationships
- recommend approaches that local government can establish to assist the farming sector to reduce greenhouse emissions and/or become more adaptive
- recommend what approaches DPI can establish to support local government to assist the farming sector to manage the risk and optimise opportunities associated with the uncertainty of climate variability and change.
Findings were presented as a report to DPI in March 2008.
- ICLEI Oceania senior staff participated in important strategic meetings throughout the year in:
- Amsterdam, the Netherlands – strategic meetings on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and sustainability reporting
- Hong Kong and London, UK – strategic discussions on the Rockefeller Foundation adaptation project
- Freiburg, Germany – senior ICLEI staff meeting
- Paris, France – discussions with the International Energy Agency on the role of cities in climate change
- Bangkok, Thailand – presentation at the United Cities and Local Governments - Asia Pacific Regional Section (UCLG-ASPAC) conference
- Vietnam – presentations to local government elected representatives on budget and infrastructure deliberations and processes.
- Steve Gawler, Country Director Indonesia, was based in Jakarta for some time throughout the year, working on the Building Resilient Indonesian Cities Project.
- Water Management in a Carbon Neutral World, Water Campaign™ Networking Event – February 2008, Broadmeadows, Victoria
- Water Partnerships in Action, Water Campaign™ Recognition Event at the Water Down Under conference – April 2008, Adelaide, South Australia
- National CCP-NZ 2008 Forum – April 2008, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Energy Management Forum, an ICLEI Oceania-Genesis Energy Ltd collaboration – April 2008, Huntley, New Zealand
- Restoring the Water Balance: Managing Local Groundwater Resources, Water Campaign™ Networking Event – May 2008, Winthrop, Western Australia
- Tackling Climate Change Across Boundaries, ICLEI Oceania Recognition and Briefing Breakfast at the Local Government Managers Association National Congress & Business Expo – May 2008, Broadbeach, Queensland
- Water Management in a Carbon Neutral World (2), Water Campaign™ Networking Event – June 2008, Eltham, Victoria
- Water Sensitive Urban Design Forum for Local Government and Industry, Water Campaign™ Forum and Networking Event – June 2008, Adelaide, South Australia
- Adapting to Change: Sustainable Local Governments, ICLEI Oceania Recognition and Briefing Breakfast at the Western Australia Local Government Association Local Government Convention & Trade Exhibition – July 2008, Perth, Western Australia
- First New Zealand meeting of the Australasian Mayors Council for Climate Protection (AMCCP) – July 2008, Rotorua, New Zealand
- Leadership in a New Climate, CCP Adaptation Initiative forum – November 2008, Mandurah, Western Australia
- Leadership in a New Climate, CCP Adaptation Initiative forum – November 2008, Adelaide, South Australia
- Recognition of Local Government in a Climate of Change! ICLEI Oceania Recognition and Briefing Breakfast at the Australian Local Government Association National General Assembly – December 2008, Melbourne, Victoria
- ISS will complete its review of the TBL Program and offer a new, updated range of programs in 2009, addressing key sustainability management questions posed by councils such as 'where is our council on the sustainability pathway?', 'where do we want to be in 5–10 years and how will we get there?'
- Councils will have the chance to participate in ICLEI Oceania’s new social sustainability initiative, Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities.
- ‘Building Adaptive and Resilient Communities’ will be launched, a new initiative from a consortia made up of ICLEI Oceania, Environmental Health Australia (EHA), Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia (IPWEA) and the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA).
ICLEI currently has 140 members within Oceania. Members are serviced from both the World Secretariat and the Oceania Secretariat.
ICLEI's growing membership is comprised of 1027 cities, towns, counties and their associations, in 66 countries worldwide.
We welcome our newest member councils: Welcome to our first Individual Associate Member: Join the movement – become an ICLEI member!
ICLEI's growing membership is comprised of 985 cities, towns, counties and their associations, in 66 countries worldwide.
ICLEI members are part of an international network of local government representatives tackling similar challenges for sustainability.
As a member of this international organisation, your council can take advantage of individual workplans, significant discounts on other programs and support services and access to a diverse series of publications, tools, workshops and online materials.
View a selection of initiatives being implemented by members around the world on the ICLEI Global website and see the councils featured in 'ICLEI Member News'.
For more information about the benefits of ICLEI membership, see the Joining ICLEI webpage.
To become an ICLEI member please contact Bree Nicoll, ICLEI Oceania Finance Administration Officer, Ph: +61 (0) 3 9660 2230.
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