Climate Emergency Plan
On 13 December 2023, Council adopted the first Climate Emergency Plan(PDF, 6MB) to guide shire-wide action on climate change.
The plan was developed as a collaborative effort involving people from across the community and Council, through a series of workshops. A steering group involving representatives from across Council departments and key community sectors guided the development of the plan and supported the workshops.
The Climate Emergency Plan draws together, and builds upon work done in recent years to address climate change:
A total of 56 actions under six themes are listed in the plan:
- Nurturing nature
- Climate Ready Communities
- Post Fossil Fuels
- Health and Wellbeing
- Waste and the Circular Economy
- Response and Recovery
A key principle of the plan is partnership and collaboration, enabling everyone in the community to work with others in whatever way they can to help both mitigate and adopt to the impacts of climate change.
To find out more about the plan, and how you may be able to be involved in its implementation, call Council’s Sustainability Officer on (03) 5422 0333 or environment@mrsc.vic.gov.au
Our community emissions profile
The most reliable data regarding greenhouse gas emissions from all activity in the community is through Climate Snapshot. The profile for Macedon Ranges Shire for 2021-2022 shows that a total of 547,000 tonnes CO2-e was generated from community activity, from various sectors:
- IPPU: 5%
- Waste: 3%
- Transport: 31%
- Gas: 11%
- Electricity: 40%
Download the full Snapshot Report(PDF, 92KB)
Accounting for emissions generating from any one local government area is problematic, due to the many variable factors to be considered. The Global Protocol for Community-scale greenhouse gas Inventories (GPC) is an established method for measuring emissions at the community level in a consistent manner. Climate Snapshot provides valuable insights into where our emissions are coming from in the Macedon Ranges.
Council is working within its capacity to influence community action for reducing emissions.