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City of Greater Geelong Greenhouse Strategy Review

City of Greater Geelong Greenhouse Strategy Review

The City of Greater Geelong (CoGG) is at the forefront of climate change mitigation and adaptation amongst local Councils across Australia. The Council has previously developed the Greenhouse Response 2008-2011 and the Low Carbon Growth Plan for Greater Geelong, which have both resulted in a range of projects and initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the municipality.

CoGG is now undertaking a review of the municipality’s overarching Greenhouse Strategy to ensure that it is updated and reflective of the priorities of both the Council and the Geelong community.

The objective of the Greenhouse Strategy Review is to create a new roadmap for CoGG’s response to corporate and community greenhouse gas emissions. It will establish an updated greenhouse gas emissions profile, propose carefully considered emission reduction targets and identify and prioritise opportunities for emissions reduction. It will also adopt a set of indicators and a process to ensure progress is objectively monitored and reported, and the impact of emissions reduction activities is assessed.

In order to inform the Greenhouse Strategy Review, CoGG would like your view on climate change mitigation and the actions that Council could take to minimise the greenhouse gas emissions of our municipality. Please take a moment to consider the following questions and complete the survey by 5pm Sunday 14 December 2014. 

For more information on CoGG’s Greenhouse Strategy Review contact Tim Mordaunt, Environment and Waste Services on 5272 5272.

2. To which of the following age brackets do you belong?
3. How would you rate the importance of minimising climate change impacts to the Greater Geelong municipality? Possible impacts include greater coastal erosion, increase intensity of storms and higher number of extreme bushfire risk days.
Not at all importantNot importantNeitherImportantVery important
4. How would you rate your knowledge of CoGG’s strategy and actions that have been implemented to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
Nothing at allBelow average knowledgeModerate knowledgeAbove average knowledgeA great deal
5. What general actions should CoGG put in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Please rank in order of importance, with 1 the most important and 8 the least important:
Space Cell Priority number
Raise awareness
Set targets, e.g. for emissions reductions or renewable energy generation
Lead by example
Provide support and investment to industry to become energy efficient
Invest in sustainable technology such as large scale renewable energy
Advocate for legislation or restrictions
Participate globally by collaborating with similar cities around the world
Provide support to people to reduce their carbon footprint
6. What do you believe should be CoGG’s priority areas related to reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Please rank in order of importance, with 1 the most important and 8 the least important
Space Cell Priority number
Energy efficiency – residential buildings
Energy efficiency – commercial buildings
Energy efficiency – industrial and manufacturing facilities
Renewable energy generation
Waste
Agriculture
Transport
Freight
7. If CoGG implements actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, what do you believe would be the impact of jobs and the local economy within the municipality?
Highly negative impactNegative impactNeitherPositive impactHighly positive impact