Our climate emergency planning involves actions across energy, waste, transport, business, procurement and events.
In 2017, Darebin Council adopted its Climate Emergency Plan 2017—22, and called on the state and federal governments to declare a climate emergency and legislate programs to drive an emergency response. We are now in the process of developing our second plan.
The Climate Emergency Plan provides an overarching framework for our work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions both in its own operations and in the community, and to support the community to adapt and develop resilience to the impacts of climate change.
View the Climate Emergency Plan 2017—22(PDF, 12MB) in full, or read the 8 page summary(PDF, 3MB). You can be part of the conversation about our new Climate Emergency Plan.
We have:
The 2021—25 Council Plan, passed in June 2021, continues our commitment to climate leadership. ‘Continuing to lead with our response to the climate emergency’ is the third of the ten big actions in the four year plan.
We are doing this by: