MAYORS OF FIRE-STRICKEN AREAS have signed a statement calling on the Australian Government to acknowledge the link between climate change and the catastrophic fire conditions facing New South Wales and Queensland this week. Eleven mayors, including the leaders of...
All around the country, we are seeing the power of communities working together to tackle climate change. From carbon neutral kindergartens and community driven climate summits, local councils and community are leading action on climate from the ground up. Here are...
Blue Mountains Gazette Blue Mountains mayor Mark Greenhill will call for the state and federal governments to declare a Climate Change Emergency at the next council meeting. Earlier this year Blue Mountains City Council became only the third council in NSW to declare...
Meet Tony Wellington, Noosa Mayor and Cities Power Partnership Climate Ambassador of the Year. His town faces serious challenges from climate change, which is why it’s fighting back. From declaring a climate emergency to installing hundreds of solar panels, this...
Northern Beaches Council Northern Beaches Council is proposing a series of ambitious targets to protect and enhance the local environment over the next 20 years including maximising the retention of bushland, more than halving community carbon emissions and for our...
Energy, we use it daily. From turning on the heater during those cold winter nights, to using our phones, to making toast, in our contemporary lives it is almost impossible to escape. With global temperatures rising from human activity and polluting fossil fuels...
photo credit: ABC News THE ACT’S ANNOUNCEMENT of a new target to get to net-zero emissions by 2045 is a ‘trailblazer’, which should prompt Australia’s other states and territories to seriously reduce their climate impact, according to national climate alliance the...
Northern Beaches Council | 3 September 2019 Northern Beaches Council is aiming to increase the number of homes on the peninsula with solar to 50 per cent by 2030. Mayor Michael Regan said that currently just over 8,000 homes use the power of the sun, whereas over...
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS tackling climate change have garnered national recognition at last night’s Cities Power Partnership Awards. The Awards, run by the Climate Council’s Cities Power Partnership, took place on Thursday 29 August in Sydney, recognising the unsung work of...
In just two years, the Cities Power Partnership has seen over 100 councils representing almost 11 million Aussies join forces to tackle climate change. From communities committing to a totally renewable future to Australia’s biggest solar farm,...
