Climate Change Mitigation in a Changing Context - What Role for Local Government?

7 May 2009

The NSW CCP State Forum, Climate Change Mitigation in a Changing Context – What role for Local Government? was hosted by Penrith City Council.  

The forum provided elected members, managers and council officers the opportunity to hear from a range of experts on the new context in which councils are carrying out the climate mitigation efforts.  

The morning session included an update from climate scientist Ann Hendersen-Sellers on the latest climate science, presentations on the implications of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme from the Department of Climate Change, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Total Environment Centre and discussion of the opportunities of council-community collaboration from Leichhardt Council and their local climate action group.

The afternoon session featured a presentation on the findings of the CCP energy and emissions information management project, case studies on information management from Penrith and Pittwater Councils and discussion on information management best practice for councils.

ICLEI Oceania would like to thank the speakers for giving their time on the day. Presentations are now available for download:

• CPRS, Waste Sector and Local Government [PDF, 89.7 KB]
  Serena Ritchie, Department of Climate Change
    
• CPRS and Implications for Local Government [PDF, 1.2 MB]
  Andrew Petersen, PricewaterhouseCoopers
   
• NGERS, Waste and Voluntary Action: Implications for Local Government [PDF, 190 KB]
  Sarah Van Erp and Jane Castle, Total Environment Centre
    
• CCP Program Measures Analysis [PDF, 712 KB]
  Lindsay Soutar, NSW CCP State Manager
         
• Managing to Measure: Learning from the  Energy and emissions Information Management Project [PDF, 177KB]
  Michael Cann, CCP Project Manager
       
• Penrith City Council’s Data Management System [PDF, 1.4 MB]
  Bernadette Riad, Penrith Council
    
• Pittwater Council’s Approach to Energy and Emissions Data Management [PDF, 3.5 MB]
  Simonne Shore, Pittwater Council

For further information, please contact CCP NSW State Managers, Lindsay Soutar or Alex Sansom.