CENTRAL VICTORIAN GREENHOUSE ALLIANCE
Local governments working together to drive action
on climate change across central and north west Victoria
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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.

Planning and Climate Change in Victoria Report

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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.

Submissions

2025
VEU Regulatory Program Targets and Greenhouse Reduction Rates 2026 and 2027​- Jan 2025
2024
Draft Ministerial Direction Climate Change Consideration- Nov 2024
Draft Victorian Transmission Plan Guidelines Submission- Aug 2024
Plan Victorian Submission- Aug 2024
Transport and Infrastructure Net Zero Consultation Roadmap- July 2024
REZ Community Benefits Plan Submission- June 2024
VGA Submission: Victorian Inquiry into climate resilience- June 2024
Minimum standards for rental properties- June 2024
VGA Submission: Inquiry into Local Government funding and services- June 2024
REZ Community Benefits Plan Submission- June 2024
VGA Submission: Federal Inquiry into local government sustainability- May 2024
Climate Change Authority Issue Paper- May 2024
MAV and VGA Submission to the National Adaptation Plan Issues Paper- April 2024
Submission to the National Adaptation Plan Issues Paper- April 2024
Inquiry into the transition to electric vehicles- March 2024
Response to the First Nations Clean Energy Strategy Consultation Paper- February 2024
2023
Response to the Future Gas Strategy Consultation Paper- November 2023
Joint Submission: Inquiry into Residential Electrification- September 2023
Joint Submission: Parliamentary Inquiry into the 2022 Flood Event in Victoria- May 2023
Joint Submission: Senate Inquiry into Australia’s preparedness to host Commonwealth, Olympic and Paralympic Games- May 2023
Joint Submission:  Fuel Efficiency Standard (FES) Consultation Paper- May 2023
VNI West Consultation Report – Options Assessment- April 2023
Joint Submission: Proposed design and draft amendments to the Safeguard Rule and related subordinate legislation- February 2023
Joint Submission: Implications of severe weather events on the national regional, rural, and remote road network- February 2023
2022
Joint Submission: VGA response to National Electric Vehicle Strategy consultation paper- October 2022
Joint Statement: Australian Councils call for stronger energy performance standards for new homes to cut cost of living and improve health and wellbeing- 2022
Joint Submission: CVGA GMCA response to VNI West Project Assessment Draft Report- September 2022
Joint Submission: VGA submission on Victoria's 2035 Emissions Reduction Targets- May 2022
2020
Submission to Victorian Zero Emission Vehicles Expert Advisory Panel 
Raising minimum standards for new homes Nov 2020
A Climate Positive Stimulus for Victorian Local Government- Aug 2020
Low Emissions Technology Roadmap submission June 2020
Draft Integrated System Plan 2020 - Australian Energy Market Operator - Feb 2020
2019
Infrastructure priorities for the regions February 2019 
Inquiry into tackling climate change in Victorian communities 
Victorian Government's Interim Greenhouse Gas Emission targets and priorities- July 2019
2018
Improved planning controls for sustainable buildings and urban ecology- 4 June 2018
Western Victoria RIT-T - April 2018
Interim Emissions Reduction Targets Submission- April 2018
National Construction Code review on energy efficiency- 5 April 2018
2017
Turning waste into energy- 21 November 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 

 Media Releases/ Articles

Energy efficiency insulates us against economic shocks 
Adaptation is the poor cousin of climate policy 
An end to blackouts? Demand Management success depends on collaboration
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