Following adoption of the Climate Emergency Strategy 2020-2030, Council set an ambitious target to be Net Zero by 2025.
Significant progress has been made, with the reduction of approximately 17,000 tonnes of carbon emissions from 2019.
This is a reduction of over 80 percent. To achieve this, officers have successfully delivered the VECO Power Purchase Agreement avoiding approximately 11,000 tonnes of emissions per year, delivered 600kW of solar panels across Council buildings, continued our transitions of small gas appliances in Council buildings and replaced over 20 fleet vehicles with low emission vehicles.
Council is continuing its commitment and journey to net zero, by decommissioning one of our biggest emitters, Dandenong Oasis and replacing this with the fully electric Dandenong Wellbeing Centre.
