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SPIG vision
Australia is a wealthy and progressive first world country that should be a sustainable, recycling-minded and resource-efficient society whose use and application of resources have only minimal impact on climate change. Progress towards the achievement of this goal will generate a sustainable competitive advantage for Australia.

SPIG objectives
SPIG has three objectives:

• to employ the collective skills, expertise and capabilities of the collaborating parties to design, develop and stimulate the implementation of the systems and infrastructure that are needed to achieve the vision, so as to directly address the impacts of unsustainable resource use on climate change
• to develop a systems and infrastructure plan and facilitate its adoption and implementation in the greater Sydney region (GSR), in New South Wales and across Australia
• to recommend to government and the private sector the commercial, regulatory and legislative regime that is needed to implement the systems and infrastructure plan

What SPIG has done and agreed to date
The SPIG steering group has met five times over the past 18 months to advance the SPIG initiative. During that time it has:

• produced a number of discussion and working papers internally to reconcile the starting positions of steering group members
• commissioned an external consultant develop a “Defining the Vision” paper based on a steering group workshop
• presented a technical session breakfast to solicit wider stakeholder input

The steering group is now presenting the Strategic Planning and Infrastructure Group (SPIG) Discussion Paper No. 3 to the entire membership of the participating organisations for review and comment.

Related Documents:

Strategic Planning and Infrastructure Group (SPIG) Discussion Paper 3  (769 KB)