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The
Murrindindi Climate Network Inc. Draft Objectives
The Murrindindi Climate Network Inc. is a not for profit apolitical organization, uniting a wide variety of different organizations (for profit and not for profit) and individuals. The Murrindindi Climate Network includes and welcomes institutions across all sectors of the community, as well as individual citizens to an umbrella network with the aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to consider programs/actions that facilitate adaptation and enhance resilience to climate change at a local level in the Shire of Murrindindi.
The Murrindindi Climate Network Inc. engages in activities
that strengthen understanding, co-operation and communication
between its members, with planning and decision making bodies,
with local community groups, businesses and residents and the
broader public. The Murrindindi Climate Network Inc.:
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networks, gathers and disseminates information to enhance public
understanding, appreciation of, and involvement in, activities
to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions and to manage local impacts of climate change;
- conducts MCN activities in the Murrindindi Shire as a whole,
and in parts of the Shire to strengthen community spirit and
stewardship of
natural resources in a climate friendly way;
- promotes responsible life style choices, business practices
and technologies on a Shire level to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and to
mitigate the local impacts of climate change;
- co-operates and networks with organizations, institutions
and citizens of neighboring Shires and in the Goulburn Broken
Catchment Area to promote
climate friendly life style choices, business practices and
technologies on a regional level.
- Provides the opportunity for local organizations and individuals
to have a voice and work towards a united, consistent approach
to Council
and to the State and Federal Governments on important Climate
Change issues.
(Think global, act local)
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