The ACT is a global leader on climate change action. We have some of the most ambitious emissions reduction targets in the world, and are on track to be powered by 100% renewable electricity from 2020. But there is still a lot more we can do.
Building on our successes, the ACT Climate Change Strategy 2019–2025 outlines the next steps the community, business and Government will take to reduce emissions by 50–60% (below 1990 levels) by 2025 and establish a pathway for achieving net zero emissions by 2045.
The Strategy has been developed in coordination with the ACT Planning Strategy 2018, the ACT Housing Strategy (2018) and the draft Moving Canberra: Integrated Transport Strategy. Together, these strategies provide a comprehensive approach to building a smart, healthy net zero emissions city.
The Strategy is also complemented by Canberra’s Living Infrastructure Plan: Cooling the City, which sets the direction for maintaining and enhancing trees, soils and waterways to keep out city cool, healthy and liveable in a changing climate.
