Advocacy is a core pillar of CVGA’s work and one of the primary benefits of CVGA membership. CVGA advocates with and on behalf of our member councils for policies and initiatives that support our shared vision for a climate positive region that is prepared for the impacts of climate change.
Through our advocacy work we aim to promote local government insights, perspectives, and recommendations to contribute to informed, evidence-based decision-making and positive change for our region. CVGA also works collaboratively with the wider network of Victorian Greenhouse Alliances, the Municipal Association of Victoria, the Council Alliance for Sustainable Built Environments, and other partners to coordinate advocacy efforts that amplify the voices of Victorian councils and their communities.
See a list of our recent public submission below.
Through our advocacy work we aim to promote local government insights, perspectives, and recommendations to contribute to informed, evidence-based decision-making and positive change for our region. CVGA also works collaboratively with the wider network of Victorian Greenhouse Alliances, the Municipal Association of Victoria, the Council Alliance for Sustainable Built Environments, and other partners to coordinate advocacy efforts that amplify the voices of Victorian councils and their communities.
See a list of our recent public submission below.
Planning and Climate Change in Victoria Report
Earlier this year CVGA and the Victorian Greenhouse Alliances celebrated a major advocacy win with the Victorian Government passing amendments to the Planning and Environment Act 1987 to create a legislative mandate for planning authorities to consider climate change in decisions at all levels of the planning system.
This reform came on the back of an extensive and successful local government advocacy campaign ‘Planning for a Safe Climate’ led by the Victorian Greenhouse Alliances and Council Alliance for a Sustainable Build Environment, and our award-winning report prepared by the Hansen Partnership on ‘Climate Change and Planning in Victoria’.
Planners across Victoria have been asking for climate change to be referenced in the Act for many years, to create a mandate that enables them to ask for Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESD). This was a key ask by the local government sector as part of the ‘Planning for a Safe Climate’ Campaign. This critical reform will feed through to improved climate resilience outcomes in communities through planning decisions that factor in current and future climate risks, and by creating a clear mandate for council planners to be able to ask for ESD.
See report here.
This reform came on the back of an extensive and successful local government advocacy campaign ‘Planning for a Safe Climate’ led by the Victorian Greenhouse Alliances and Council Alliance for a Sustainable Build Environment, and our award-winning report prepared by the Hansen Partnership on ‘Climate Change and Planning in Victoria’.
Planners across Victoria have been asking for climate change to be referenced in the Act for many years, to create a mandate that enables them to ask for Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESD). This was a key ask by the local government sector as part of the ‘Planning for a Safe Climate’ Campaign. This critical reform will feed through to improved climate resilience outcomes in communities through planning decisions that factor in current and future climate risks, and by creating a clear mandate for council planners to be able to ask for ESD.
See report here.
Submissions
2025
2024
2023
2022
2020
2019
2018
National Construction Code review on energy efficiency- 5 April 2018
2017
Reforming the Victorian Planning Provisions (online form)
Australian Energy Regulator Demand Management Incentive Scheme
Parliamentary Inquiry into Electric Vehicles
Finkel Review into Australias National Electricity Market
Joint letter on updating the National Electricity Objective
Parliamentary Inquiry into Electric Vehicles
Finkel Review into Australias National Electricity Market
Joint letter on updating the National Electricity Objective