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	INNER WEST COUNCIL "PETERSHAM PARK 10-YEAR PLAN Mar 2020-2030"

PPWC Nov 2020 Newsletter - 

"Public Interest  - Aus Councils' carbon credit strategies based on 2011 Aus Federal Legislation"

Tue 03 Nov 2020		IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST		Recipient: 61C2xxxx
REF: pPPNK3i1						Y/R: Council Carbon Offsets

PUBLIC INTEREST  - INFLUENCES ON COUNCILS' CARBON CREDITS STRATEGIES

Thank you for your feedback about Carbon Offsets and how it currently 
appears to operate with Councils at the moment:

A  Australia only country using carryover climate credits
B  Carbon Trade Exchange & The Carbon Trust Standard
C  Queensland Local Government Carbon Offset 
D  Brisbane Council 

A  Australia only country using carryover climate credits
B  Carbon Trade Exchange & The Carbon Trust Standard
C  Queensland Local Government Carbon Offsets
D  Brisbane Council Carbon Offset strategy to offset 2017-2018 Emissions

A  AUS ONLY COUNTRY USING CARRYOVER CLIMATE CREDITS

According to the Guardian article 22 Oct 2019 "Australia is the only country 
using carryover climate credits, officials admit"

"The Morrison government has rebuffed calls to abandon using credits to 
meet its 2030 emissions goal

The Federal Environment Department says it is not aware of any countries 
other than Australia planning to use controversial "carryover credits" to meet 
international commitments…………."

B  CARBON TRADE EXCHANGE & THE CARBON TRUST STANDARD

It appears that Carbon Credits in the form of the "Carbon Trust Carbon Standard" 
are traded on the Carbon Trade Exchange headquartered in London with offices on 
UK, China, Singapore, The Netherlands, Mexico and South Africa

"The Carbon Trust Standard hard copy Att A

The Carbon Trust Carbon Standard is only awarded to companies and 
organisations who measure and reduce their carbon emissions year on year. 

Examples of organisations who have held the Carbon Standard include Sky, Aldi, 
Eurotunnel, Bupa, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Samsung Electronics, Angus Council, 
Capital & Regional, ... Sep 4 2019      Founded: 2001

The Carbon Trust Standard currently has the following Standards

A	The Carbon Trust Standard for Carbon
B	The Carbon Trust Standard for Water
C	The Carbon Trust Standard for Waste
D	The Carbon Trust Standard for Zero Waste to Landfill
E	Carbon Trust Standard for Supply Chain "

C  QUEENSLAND LOCAL GOVERNMENT CARBON OFFSETS

Carbon offsetting by Queensland councils: motives and benefits by Heather Zeppela

Abstract. 

Carbon offsetting provides one avenue for local councils to mitigate their greenhouse 
gas emissions. 

This includes voluntary offsetting of council events or activities and purchasing 
carbon credits to offset emissions from transport, or landfill sites exceeding 
25,000tCO2-e. 

Offsets are 'An investment in a project that reduces greenhouse gas emissions or 
sequesters carbon from the atmosphere' to compensate for emissions from other 
activities (LGAQ 2009, p.58). 

Under the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011, local councils 
can also earn carbon credits through managing landfill emissions, or environmental 
plantings. 

This paper evaluates carbon offsetting actions and motives by Queensland councils 
from a 2012 quantitative and qualitative survey sent to all 73 councils………" 

D  Brisbane Cl offsets in advance to negate projected 2017-18 emissions

Please find attached the Brisbane Council "Table 9: Offset units carried over and 
allocated in advance to negate projected 2017-18 emissions (Att B)"

There are 16 offsets list with 7 referring to 2016-2017 year period and 9 allocated to 
the 2017-2018 period - is this the Carryover Climate Credits scheme ?

There are 3 different Offset types listed with 3 different registries namely: 

1	VCU - Verified Carbon Units [VCU] using the APX VCS Registry

2	CER - According to the Clean Energy Regulator website: "a CER is a tradable 
	unit representing one tonne of carbon dioxide-equivalent (tCO2-e) of 
	emissions abatement or sequestration". 

	An "ACCU (Australian Carbon Credit Unit) issued represents one tonne of carbon 
	dioxide equivalent (tCO2-e) stored or avoided" - using the CDM Registry

3	NKACCU - Non-Kyoto Australian Carbon Credit Units [NKACCU] - uses 
	the ANREU Registry since 2013 - is this an Australian only first ?

Please keep providing your feedback Tks Regards

Clare GARDINER						
Researcher							
PETERSHAM PARK WASTE COLLECTIVE [PPWC]	

B: PO Box 117 Petersham 2049
E: PPWC.rs1@gmail.com
M: {61}(4)4827-8153
W: www.oic.org/SAN/612131

Below are examples of support emails including:

Unlike your correspondent I am very interested in the PPWC news and work but as a 
matter of practicality don't you think it would be easier to just not deliver the 
newsletter to the person in question rather than wasting your time and energy 
explaining the difference in junk mail and public interest and engaging in 
correspondence with the person?.  

It is a bit like trying to deal with a troll on social media.

I thank you for all you do on behalf of us all

Dear Editor,

Rather than legal or technical debates about whether this newsletter constitutes junk 
mail, I prefer a more abstract, emotional truth. 

While an unaddressed, mass-printed piece of paper would normally constitute junk 
mail, my September edition had lines that were clearly highlighted by hand.

This act of personalisation, to my mind, means that it is a valid piece of mail. 

While I have no understanding of its purpose or context, the PPWC newsletter is 
therefore welcome in my mailbox. 

Regards,


According to the Australian Austlii site "Public Interest" is

THE PUBLIC INTEREST WE KNOW IT'S IMPORTANT, BUT DO WE KNOW WHAT IT MEANS 
Chris Wheeler*** 

The issue 

Acting in the public interest is a concept that is fundamental to a 
representative democratic system of government and to good public administration. 

However, this commonly used concept is, in practice, particularly complex, and 
presents two major obstacles to governments and their public officials acting in the 
public interest: 

o firstly, while it is one of the most used terms in the lexicon of public administration, 
it is arguably the least defined and least understood - few public officials would have 
any clear idea what the term actually means and what its ramifications are in practice. 

o secondly, identifying or determining the appropriate public interest in any particular 
case is often no easy task - as Lyndon B Johnson once said: 'Doing what's right isn't 
the problem. It's knowing what's right'.

The concept - acting in the public interest

The over-arching obligation on public officials

Public officials have an over-arching obligation to act in the Public Interest.

They must perform their official functions and duties, and exercise any discretionary 
powers, in ways that promote the public interest that is applicable to their official 
functions. 

The primary purpose of non-elected public officials is to serve. Serving the public 
interest is one of the four dimensions of this primary purpose, the other three 
dimensions being: 

1  to serve the Parliament and the government of the day (not applicable to all public 
   officials); 

2  to serve their employing agency (where applicable), and 

3  to serve the public as customers or clients. 

Associated with each of these four dimensions of service are various conduct 
standards with which public officials in democratic countries are commonly expected 
to comply, each with its own objective(s). 

Experience has shown that there will be times when a public official will need to 
balance conflicting or incompatible conduct standards or objectives - where the 
public official has to make a decision that will serve one objective, but not another, or 
one more than another. 

While there is some flexibility inherent in the various conduct standards with which 
public officials are commonly expected to comply, the fundamental principle must be 
that public officials must resolve any such conflicts or incompatibilities in ways that 
do not breach their obligation to act in the public interest.

*** Deputy NSW Ombudsman. Chris has over 20 years experience in investigations and 
extensive experience in management and public administration. 

He has worked in State and local government organisations in NSW and Victoria, and 
in private legal practice.

According to Wikipedia the definition of Public Interest is

Main article: Public interest law

"Public interest law" is a term that became widely adopted in the United States during 
and after the social turmoil of the 1960s. 

It built upon a tradition exemplified by Louis Brandeis, who before becoming a U.S. 
Supreme Court justice incorporated advocacy for the interests of the general public into 
his legal practice. 

In a celebrated 1905 speech, Brandeis decried the legal profession, complaining that 
"able lawyers have to a large extent allowed themselves to become adjuncts of great 
corporations and have neglected their obligation to use their powers for the protection of 
the people." [6] 

In the late 1960s and 1970s, large numbers of American law school graduates began to 
seek "relevance" in their work - wishing to have an effect on the social issues that were 
so visibly and hotly debated within American society at that time. 

They defined themselves as public interest lawyers in order to distinguish themselves 
from the "corporate adjuncts" referred to by Brandeis.[7]

Public interest law does not describe a body of law or a legal field; the term was adopted 
to describe whom the public interest lawyers were representing, rather than what matters 
they would work on. 

Instead of representing powerful economic interests, they chose to be advocates for 
otherwise underrepresented individuals".

According to Google the definition of "Junk" mail is 

"unwanted or unsolicited advertising or promotional material received through 
the post or sent as email"

from:	xxxxxxxxx
to:	Clare GARDINER 
date:	14 Aug 2020, 15:40
subject:	RE: Junk Mail

Dear Clare

Are you serious???

My address shouldn't matter - if there is a NO JUNK MAIL sign on the letter 
box, don't deliver said Junk Mail into the letter box. It's that simple!

I received a further copy of your (alleged) 'Newsletter' on the 3rd of August 
and so I followed up my initial request (which you failed to acknowledge), with 
a repeat request. 

Are you trying to say to me that I want to waste my time liaising with you, to 
request you cease doing something I have already asked you to stop doing, 
because I am bored or enjoy these interactions with you?? Please…….

The fact you didn't acknowledge my first email AND failed to take account of 
your (repeated) mistakes by accusing of lying is as preposterous as it is 
laughable.

Like I said above, this is very simple:

Don't deliver your 'Newsletter' to mailboxes that don't want to receive 
Junk Mail - which is what your newsletter is!

Enjoy your weekend

Warm regards"

xxxxxxxxx


This response to the email 15:40 14 Aug 2020 from XXXXXXXXXX has been reviewed 
and approved by the Sponsors of the "Petersham Park Waste Collective [PPWC]"


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

E: ehn.1a3posgg@gmail.com
M: {61}(4)1600-9468

Below are examples of support emails including:

1	support email received on 16:25 Wed 02 Sep 2020:

Hi Stephen & Clare

Unlike your correspondent I am very interested in the PPWC news and work but 
as a matter of practicality don't you think it would be easier to just not 
deliver the newsletter to the person in question rather than wasting your 
time and energy explaining the difference in junk mail and public interest 
and engaging in correspondence with the person?.  

It is a bit like trying to deal with a troll on social media.

I thank you for all you do on behalf of us all

2	Councillor Fiona
Fri 8/21/2020 1:50 PM

Dear Clare,
 
Thank you for the care you are showing to our world.
 
Kind regards
 

3	Councillor Geoff

Hi Geoff – thanks for your response 
 
Hope it helps explain what we believe is 
happening behind the scenes 
 
regards 
 
 
Clare GARDINER    

Cr Geoff 
Wed 8/19/2020 8:02 PM

It does


I	Other Inner West Council Documents that are part of the CSP2036

	a	Strategies
	b	Plans
	c	Statements
	r	Research References

a	Strategies

Is1 Resourcing Strategy [ReS] 2018-2028 Adopted Jun 2018- PDF File		
Is2 Climate + Renewables Strategy [CRS] - draft On-line		
Is3 Employment and Retail Lands Strategy [EaRLS] - PDF File		
Is4 Housing Strategy [HS] - PDF File
Is5 Integrated Transport Strategy [ITS] Adopted 03 Mar 2020 - PDF File
Is6 Asset Management Strategy [AMS]2018-28 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File		
Is7 Workforce Management Strategy [WMS] 2018-22 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File		
Is8 Information and Communication Technology [ICT] Strategy 2018-2022 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File

b	Plans

Ip1 Community Strategic Plan [CSP] 2036 Endorsed Jun 2019 - On-line
Ip2 Economic Strategic Development Plan [EDSP] draft - On-line
Ip3 Long Term Financial Plan 2019-2029 Adopted Jun 2019 - PDF File

c	Statements

It1 Local Planning Statement [LPS]		

r	References

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

R5 2003-2014 Value of Volunteers to Australian State Economies

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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