GREEN TEAM: Tony Gibson is The Greens mayoral candidate for the Sunshine Coast Council elections.

GREEN TEAM: Tony Gibson is The Greens mayoral candidate for the Sunshine Coast Council elections. John Mccutcheon

THE Greens will push an "It's Your Sunshine Coast" theme in the first official foray by a political party into a local government election outside Brisbane.

Sunshine Coast Council mayoral candidate Tony Gibson heads a Green Team of six councillor candidates with Aaron White also nominating in Noosa.

A low-key campaign launch at the North Shore Community Centre in Pacific Paradise yesterday contrasted with sitting mayor Mark Jamieson's packed lunch at the Event Centre Caloundra, which drew more than 200 supporters.

Mr Gibson has pledged $60,000 annually from his mayoral salary if elected to support a "greens ideas and jobs' foundation" which would pursue new ways to grow the green economy and to reach carbon neutrality - a goal shared by Byron and Noosa shires - by 2025.

The Greens also launched a 12-point plan with a focus on innovative and sustainable villages, an expanded health and wellbeing sector and developing an integrated safe and out-of-hours transport service with fast rail, light rail and electric buses.

Candidates Daniel Bryar (Division 7) and Tyrone D'Lisle (Division 4) also launched the party's Connecting People and Places transport policy aimed at addressing user concerns about public transport.

Public transport has been a key issue raised by voters with the party's candidates. Concerns include access to jobs in Maroochydore and Mooloolaba, particularly for students and teens who live in the Sippy Downs/university precincts, the cost of fares and hours of service.

The Greens want a redesign of what they see as a Brisbane-centric Translink fares structure with zones focused locally rather than out of Brisbane.

The policy calls for the lobbying of state and federal governments to deliver heavy rail to Beerwah and Maroochydore and light rail from Maroochydore to the new hospital.

Mr Gibson repeated his concerns that development of the SunCentral CBD was not supported by the transport infrastructure needed to manage the demand it was meant to generate.

Mr Bryar said at local government level major improvement could be made to congestion by focusing on unlocking bottlenecks and improving flow.

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GREEN TEAM

The Sunshine Coast's Greens candidates:

Mayor: Tony Gibson

Division 3: Fiona Anderson;

Division 4: Tyrone D'Lisle;

Division 5: Susan Etheridge;

Division 7: Daniel Bryar;

Division 9: Angela Wilson;

Division 10: Michelle Blythe.