The aim of the Local Energy Action Plan (LEAP) is to report on Shire of Augusta-Margaret River (corporate) and community mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions and provide strategies and innovative best practices to ensure the future sustainability of not only local government assets and buildings but those that are important to the community, business, tourism and industry. Council is committed to using its best endeavours to meet the needs of current and future generations through integration of environmental protection, social advancement and economic prosperity.
The LEAP is the product of the Strategic Plan adopted by Council in April 2009 and updated Corporate Plan 2017-2021. In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report detailing the likelihood and impacts of global warming 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels by 2052, if global emissions are not immediately and drastically cut. Climate change has resulted in increased extreme weather events like heatwaves, droughts, bushfires and coastal flooding. The IPCC report found that current national pledges are not enough to limit warming to 1.5degrees. The window of opportunity to limit the effects of climate change is rapidly closing. The solutions are available. We need to accelerate the transition to renewables and storage technologies and ramp up other climate solutions across all sectors of the economy.
