Last November in our Webinar “Greening the Private Realm” we looked at how to motivate private greening via two cutting-edge reports: “Let’s Grow” by Greener Spaces Better Places and  “Let’s Scale-Up” by EarthWatch Institute Australia. This second webinar explores ways of driving urban greening through “Council Planning, Policy and Regulatory Levers”. It will balance the “carrot” marketing and incentives approach from part one with a more regulatory “stick” approach.

This webinar is targeted at elected officials, leaders, and officers from municipal, metropolitan and regional authorities across Australia, community members, the private sector and academia.

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Speakers

Moderator – Steve Gawler, Regional Director, ICLEI Oceania.

Bonnie Hall, Snr Strategic Planning Officer, City of Nedlands, WA, will set the scene with a scan of approaches for urban canopy retention and provision in WA.

Mayor of Unley Michael Hewitson AM will provide an update on the City of Unley’s campaign for changes to SA Development Planning controls.

Dr Judy Bush will discuss recent research on urban greening and Melbourne’s Green Factor Tool.

Panel discussion and Q&A will be facilitated by Belinda Bean, Collective Impact Strategist, Greener Spaces Better Places.