The plan aligns with our climate and biodiversity emergency declaration and sets out crucial actions to reduce the emissions from our activities and operations. The plan commits the City of Melbourne to 76 actions across eight priority areas which keep it on course for net zero emissions by 2040.
Maintaining an emissions reduction strategy is part of our obligations as a certified carbon neutral organisation under the Australian Government's Climate Active program. As a leader in climate action, the City of Melbourne is committed to measure more and more emissions sources as the plan progresses. These include more major events and embodied carbon in our capital works projects which generally sit outside our reporting boundary.
The Emissions Reduction Plan for Council Operations 2021-26 supersedes our previous plan which contributed to a 76 per cent reduction in operational emissions from our 2011-12 baseline year.
The Emissions Reduction Plan is one part of our response to the climate and biodiversity emergency. Find out more about the accelerated actions we’re taking to respond and how we are already acting on climate change.