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On 18 November 2019 Council declared a climate emergency calling for urgent action to reverse global warming.
In response, Council has been working on developing a Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan to more clearly and decisively identify the risks, opportunities and priorities for Frankston City to reduce emissions and build resilience to climate change impacts.
In 2020, an initial Climate Change Community Survey was conducted, which provided us with the base information of what concerns our community and what Council should focus on.
Council’s Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan will include actions that Council will undertake to respond to climate change. It will be a clear plan to support our community to take action and work together for a better future. It will replace Council’s existing Towards Zero Emissions Plan 2019-2023 and the Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Plan 2011.
Your feedback will help inform Council’s Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan and ensure that the actions or initiatives that Council can take or advocate for are sought after by our community. This process will also identify actions that our community are already doing or would like to do, to support our future.
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Share your ideas, both big and small, for how Frankston City Council and the community can positively address the climate emergency.
Our community’s input has already significantly shaped this project, in our Climate Change Community Survey 2020.
In the Climate Change Community Survey 2020, our community told us that you are most concerned about the following local climate change impacts:
In 2020, our community also told us that the most important areas for Council to work in to address climate change are:
Council has listened to the key concerns about climate change raised by our community in 2020 and will use them to inform the priorities for our Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan.
Council has also taken the following specific actions:
Climate change has the potential to impact our community, our environment and the economy.
Local councils play a critical role helping communities avoid and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the changing climate.
On behalf of its ratepayers, councils are also responsible for assets and services that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
It’s important to us that we work with you, the community, to raise awareness and support local action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the severity of climate change.
We’re already seeing the increasing impacts of climate change. Which is why we must also build capacity and resilience in our communities to the changing climate and protect the natural environment so highly valued by our community.
In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the global body of scientists who assess the science related to climate change for the United Nations – released a report highlighting the urgent need to respond to climate change.
The IPCC warned that in order to avoid catastrophic global warming we must not reach 1.5° degrees above pre-industrial levels or, at the very minimum, not exceed that. They also warned that we could have just 12 years to limit a climate catastrophe.
The increase in greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere contributes to global warming as a result of the enhanced greenhouse effect. How much the climate changes will depend strongly on the extent to which greenhouse gas emissions can be avoided and reduced.
Responding to climate change requires a two-pronged approach. Not only will we need to reduce emissions (commonly referred to as greenhouse mitigation), but we will also need to build community resilience to the changing climate (known as climate adaptation).
Victoria is already experiencing the impacts of climate change, becoming hotter and drier in recent years (Source: Victoria’s Climate Science Report 2019).
The major climate change impacts projected for the greater Melbourne region include:
(Source: Greater Melbourne Climate Change Predictions, 2019)
On 18 November 2019, we declared a climate emergency (view the Council Meeting Minutes and media release), calling for urgent action to reverse global warming.
This follows on from our work over the past two decades to avoid and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (see Council’s Towards Zero Emissions Plan(PDF, 3MB) ), and adapt to a changing climate (see Council’s Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Plan(PDF, 5MB) ).
As part of Council’s resolution in declaring a climate emergency and the findings of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we decided to investigate the vulnerability and various climate emergency responses across our municipality.
This investigation will help us determine the emissions reduction and adaptation options to help our organisation and our community to transition to a more sustainable and climate smart future.
Yes, we are. Some of our other stakeholders that we are engaging with include:
We’ll pull together everyone’s ideas and feedback through this engagement period (July to August) to inform the draft Strategy.
Once drafted, it will be open for public review and feedback in November and December. We’ll then review the additional comments from our community and use them to inform the final Strategy and the planning of new climate change projects and initiatives.
Climate change action is a shared responsibility between all levels of the government, businesses, and our community. Apart from actions to be delivered by the Council itself, we will also support our community and local businesses in taking climate action.
We’re committed to delivering projects and planning for a future with reduced emissions and a thriving environment in Frankston City.
Some of our recent actions include
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