Councils back polluter-paid climate compensation fund | CANBERRA TIMES

Councils overwhelmingly support a national levy on coal, oil and gas companies to help them cope with escalating climate damage.

A City of Sydney-led motion to set up a climate compensation fund has been formally adopted unopposed as an Australian Local Government Association position.

City of Sydney deputy lord mayor Jess Miller said climate change was imposing huge costs on councils, with some coastal local governments spending millions moving sand around to protect homes and assets.

But councils have limited ability to raise funds.

"We can increase rates, if the state government will let us in NSW, or we shift those costs on to residents, or we go without," she told AAP. 

"Climate change is impacting all of us, and it's costing us so much."

READ MORE HERE about the unanimously passed motion I raised in Canberra to have big polluters pay for a fund for climate-mitigation strategies for our cities.