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What Council is doing

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Total Watermark City as a Catchment outlines the City of Melbourne’s goal to become a water sensitive city.

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The City of Melbourne has an ambitious target of zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

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The City of Melbourne is taking action to prepare for climate change.

Solar energy

The Queen Victoria Market solar energy system is the largest grid-connected solar photovoltaic installation in the southern hemisphere.

A green roof

Green roofs, walls and facades are some of the City of Melbourne’s latest tools in the work to adapt our city to climate change.

For business

1200 Buildings

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Are you a building owner or manager? Retrofit your building, save energy and money and help cut emissions within the municipality.

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Building green

Building green

Want to green your building? This toolkit has more than 70 initiatives designed to improve performance while reducing costs.

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Green hotels

Green hotels

How can your city hotel cut waste and reduce water and energy consumption? Our study shows that you could save 4.8 litres of waste and 15.3 litres of water per guest per night.

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Sustainable Fund

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Sustainable Melbourne Fund seeks expressions of interest from Melbourne businesses with ideas for sustainable ventures.

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