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Tue 03 Dec 2019						Recipient: 61C2IWmu
REF: ACDKM3f1						Y/R: Climate+Renewables Strategy

ZIG/ZAG 	UNB - European Commission [EC] "Blockchains for Social Good" [BSG] 
Challenge - ORIGINAL REQUEST COPY OF COUNCIL "ICT PLAN" WED 13 NOV 2019

Jon STIEBEL					E: council@innerwest.nsw.gov.au
Urban Sustainability Manager			F:{61}(2)
INNER WEST COUNCIL				M:{61}(4)
260 Liverpool Rd ASHFIELD 2131			P:{61}(2)9392-5000

Dear Mr STIEBEL					cc	Interested Parties

  2nd REQUEST FOR INNER WEST COUNCIL "ICT PLAN"

At 15:09 Wed 13 Nov 2019 we visited the Petersham Customer Services Office at 2-14 Fisher St 
PETERSHAM 2049 to view the "ICT Plan" as listed as 1 of 4 Plans comprising the Resourcing 
Strategy of "Fig 1 Integrated Planning and Reporting" of the Community Strategy Plan [CSP] "Our 
Inner West 2036"

We have managed to download the other 3 On-line PDF Plans namely:

A	Long term financial plan 2018-2028

B	Workforce Management Plan 2018-2022

C	Asset Management Plan 2018-2028

However we were not able locate the On-line "ICT Plan" PDF File hence the visit to the Petersham 
Customer Service Office to view the plan as we were informed at Leichhardt Library that it would 
be on display at that Office

A ticket "H822 13/11/2019 3.09pm" is attached as evidence of attending the Petersham Office

"Drazan" took the query and located yourself as the person responsible for the "IWC ICT Plan"

"Drazan" then asked for details including email address and mobile phone number which he 
emailed to you with the request for a copy of the ICT Plan

However, as at 17:00 Mon 02 Dec 2019, we have not received any plan or communication from 
you hence this follow-up email

Please advise if we can have a copy of the IWC ICT Plan

In the meantime your contacts at the University of Sydney School of Physics Professor Manfred 
LENZEN or Dr Arunima MALIK may wish to comment on the 2016 PhD thesis by Robert Michael 
WATT:"The Moral Economy of Carbon Offsetting: Ethics, Power and the Search for Legitimacy in 
a New Market" - Abstract attached below

Thank you			

Regards



Stephen GOULD				Peter AXTENS LLB (Retired)
Sponsor Co-ordinator			Legal Officer
OPEN INTERCHANGE CONSORTIUM [OIC]	SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK [SAN]

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The Moral Economy of Carbon Offsetting: Ethics, Power and the Search for Legitimacy in a New 
Market
					Abstract

Carbon offsetting has been an institutionalised response to climate change for over a decade. 

Over this period, climate change has become more severe and calls for climate justice have 
become increasingly insistent. 

Yet the normative controversies of carbon offsetting remain unresolved, as debates about the 
environmental quality, development impacts and ethical implications of carbon offsetting continue. 

This thesis explores the relationship between morality and carbon offsetting in three domains. 

A  First it provides an evaluation of the ethics of offsetting. 

B  Second it gives an account of the 'lay normativity' of the market, describing how carbon market 
   actors interpret and act upon issues of moral concern. 

C  And third, it explains offsetting's moral economy. 

First it provides an evaluation of the ethics of offsetting

   First, the thesis examines the moral rationales for and problems of offsetting in order to clarify 
   the bases of criticisms levelled at offsets by researchers concerned about trends in neoliberal 
   environmental governance. 

    In evaluation of the ethics of offsetting, the PhD recognises some limited rationales, but mainly 
    highlights widespread problems including lack of environmental integrity and failure to produce 
    'sustainable development'. 

    The structure of the market is shown to create opportunities for malpractice and difficulties for 
    reform. 

B  Second it gives an account of the 'lay normativity' of the market

   Second, building on work in cultural political economy, the research describes carbon 
   Offsetting's lay normativity. 

   The account is based on interviews with over sixty carbon offset market actors including project 
   developers, consultants, auditors, regulators, retailers and buyers in the UK, continental    
   Europe, and in India. 

   Findings show that the market is founded on ethical principles: offsetting is nothing without 
   notions of environmental and developmental care. 

   Critiques of, and reforms to, offsetting are also grounded in principled debate. 

   But carbon market actors often use their power to further commercial interests that are not 
   aligned with production of environmental or developmental value. 

   And yet, even as rationales are ignored and problems are amplified, market actors maintain a 
   discursive semblance of moral behaviour through forms of justification, story-telling and identity 
   work. 

C  And third, it explains offsetting's moral economy. 

   Third, the thesis explains how principles, profit and power combine to affect the 
   governance of offsetting. 

   It shows that the concentration of power among profit-seeking actors drives the production of 
   offsetting's moral problems in the stages of project development, regulation and retail. 

   Commercial interests in the politics of knowledge lead to manipulation of the discursive framings
   through which people come to understand offsets 

   Ethical narratives are deployed to sustain the market in states of dysfunction, enabling 
   privileged groups to gain exchange value at the expense of climate protection and 
   sustainable development. 

   Through this explanatory work, the PhD contributes an original application of ideas about moral 
   political economy to the case of climate change and carbon trading, demonstrating that 
   powerful actors can shape culture and alter our perceptions of right and wrong.




	D	Key Documents

	D4	2019-08-18 Submission to Inner West Council for Waste Management Joint-Venture

	D3	2012-01-11 p10 YEF "Local Goverment plays the central role in litter and waste management"

	D2	2012-01-11 p6 YEF "Populations, Dogs and Parks"

	D1	2012-01-11 Frontpage YEF "Closing the Poop Loop" Project Proposal


	R	References

	R6	2019-01-19 Adelaide Advertiser: Compensation paid to Slave Owners 1835 - 2015 (180 yrs)

	R5	2003-2014 Dr Duncan Ironmonger Value of Volunteers for 4 States

	R4	2014-11-07 IBM "Blockchain" solution for the Diamond Industry Video

	R3	1997 Lessons from a Dozen Years of Group Support Systems Research - 4,000 IBM projects

	R2	Sir Evelyn de Rothschild - Director De Beers 1977-1994 & IBM UK 1972-1995

	R1	1987-04-23 RUBAC Automatic eProcess Synchronisation Video

 
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