KEY SPEAKERS ON CLIMATE CHANGE-AYCC

Sun 28 Sep 2008					Recipient:6123Nwkj
						REF:CBEYILC1
TO:	Josh				cc	SAN-2088 Mgt Cmt
	Australian Delegate			Youth Climate Coalition
	United Nations Poznan 2008 Conference	Interested Parties
	AUSTRALIAN YOUTH CLIMATE COALITION			

Dear Josh - thank you for your confirmation that you can speak next
year and providing a number of possible dates.

We are establishing the email contact lists and possible venues 
depending on the likely number of attendees - we will confirm the
date and venue for you to speak by 30 Oct 2008 - will that be OK ?

Josh - could we have the Power-point presentation and hand-out about
a week before the meeting because we place them on the web
so people can review them after the meeting ?

Here are some examples from the OIC Local Government Special 
Interest Group

BACKGROUND SAN 2088

The Mosman Sustainability Action Network [SAN-2088] developed
from a number of parents whose children were involved with local
Junior Sports clubs.

In 2005 parents had developed the Junior Sports Information System 
[JSIS] to as a self-funding system to enable local business to sponsor 
Junior Sports Clubs and provide funds so the Clubs could comply 
with the Child Protection legislation

JSIS provides a Parent reporting service that enable Parents to check
that any Junior Sport club has carried out the Child Protection checks

This requirement arose because there were numerous newspaper 
articles stating Clubs were not complying with the legislation eg
SMH 27 Aug 2006 

In addition at one of the seminars in Jun 2007 attendees spoke 
about number of anomalies in how parents were being charges fees 
for Junior Sports Club registrations including:

1	"Elastic" pricing of fees

2	Double dipping on Insurance

3	No explanation of fee structure


This was confirmed by a Sun-Herald article on 27 Sep 2007
Levies leave our youngsters without a sporting chance

As we became involve with the Local Councils we found that many
Councils were setting up extensive sports field lighting systems
but not checking how much in Carbon Credits and electricity was
being charged to the parents and rate-payers
 
This is a letter from one group of residents asking about the 
"excessive use of power to create light power 40% in excess of 
the required standard" 

We then became very aware that the local Councils were really becoming
controlled by policies dictated by the local Regional Organisation of 
Council [ROC] in the case of Mosman, Manly, Pittwater and Warringah 
Councils it is SHOROC

Then in Jul 2008 some of the parents attended the "Green Transformers"
Seminar sponsored by Sydney Council with Allan JONES MBE 
outlining the savings over 10 years by Woking Council

This led to the formation of the Mosman Sustainability Action Network
[SAN-2088] to assist local residents and local businesses to understand
Sustainability issues and invite people like yourself to inform us about 
the latest developments in Climate Change from the Youth Climate Coalition 

NEXT STEPS

We look forward to meeting with you and will contact you later
in about 2 weeks with more details on the likely date and venue

regards

Stephen GOULD		Peter AXTENS  LLB	Pim RAVESTIJN 
Hon Secretary		Compliance Officer	Education/Awareness
SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK [SAN-2088]	Co-ordinator

On 24 Sep 08, at 15:43, Josh  - Youth Delegation to Poznan 2008 wrote:

> Dear Stephen
> 
> This sounds great! I'd be happy to come along and speak next year.
> 
> If you'd like me to speak on the topic already selected for the meeting,
> perhaps Community choice (January and May) or Biodiversity (March) might be
> the most appropriate - I can speak about the views of the Australian Youth
> Climate Coalition, about our experience at the UN conference this December,
> and also about the key policies that we are seeing (or not seeing) from the
> Australian government. I can prepare a Powerpoint presentation or a document
> for distribution at the meeting, if you'd like.
> 
> At this stage my area of research is forestry and biodiversity, but I will
> have covered most key areas on climate change by the time I come to SAN in
> '09.
> 
> If I don't need to speak on the topic of the remainder of the meeting, April
> would also be very convenient.
> 
> Thanks for this opportunity - I look forward to it!
> 
> Just one quick question - how does SAN Mosman run? I haven't heard about it
> before, so I'm interested to know about your work.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Josh 
> Policy Team
> Australian Youth Delegation - UN Climate Conference, Poznan 2008
> 
> 
> > Sun 21 Sep 2008				 Recipient:6123Nwkj
> >    						REF:CBEYILI1
> > TO:     Josh                           cc  SAN-2088 Mgt Cmt
> >        YOUTH CLIMATE COALITION
> >
> > Dear Josh - further to an article that appeared in the Northside
> > Courier this is an invitation for you to speak on Climate Change issues
> > at a Sustainability Action Network Mosman [SAN-2088] meeting in
> > 2009.
> >
> > A       Possible Dates
> > B       Possible Topics
> > C       Next Steps
> >
> > A       POSSIBLE DATES
> >
> > As you may have a number of speaking engagements please review
> > the program and advise which date is the most suitable for you
> >
> > The talk would be about 30-40 minutes with 10-15 minutes for
> > questions
> >
> > B       POSSIBLE TOPICS
> >
> > We note from the article that that you will be representing
> > Australian Youth at the United Nations Climate Change Conference
> > in Poznan later this year hence may want to talk about that
> > conference or you may want to outline the views that the Youth
> > Coalition have on Climate Change issues
> >
> > NEXT STEPS
> >
> > Please advise if any of the dates are convenient or please give me
> > a call if you wish to discuss any issues first
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Stephen GOULD
> > Hon Secretary
> > SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK [SAN-2088]
> >
> > E:      stephen.gould@ksas-au.net
> > M:      0416-009-468