these assets may be threatened by continued lack of investment in the public transport infrastructure necessary to accommodate sustainable growth without a carbon tax carbon emissions trading programme or strong renewable power mandates backedup by significant and sustained federal investment the region may not be able to capitalise on the potential for green job growth pacific rim cities like san diego california portland oregon and vancouver british columbia are all potential competitors for investment capital and positioning in the green space and have formed innovation hubs and industry and research partnerships to foster green cluster development the metropolitan plan for sydney describes a new approach to infrastructure planning that is promising however lgas working in collaboration with other agencies such as rdasydney should consider forming a coalition to press for investment in a few key projects around which consensus can be built the coalition might be called something like move sydney green and it might focus on getting an identifiable lightrail extension clean freight rail corridor and renewable power project constructed