The Victorian Government has set new targets in this Strategy to reduce the state’s emissions from 2005 levels – by 28–33 per cent by 2025, and 45–50 per cent by 2030 – on the way to net-zero emissions by 2050.
Council will also continue to map out and refine its pathway to net-zero with five-yearly targets, each stronger than the last. Council’s next target is for 2035. It will be set in 2023, as required by Victoria’s Climate Change Act 2017.
Achieving Council’s interim targets – and, ultimately net-zero emissions – will require action across all sectors of the economy by governments, businesses and the community. To help coordinate this action, the Government has prepared emissions reduction pledges for each emissions sector for 2021–2025 – the first in a progression of five-yearly pledges required under the Climate Change Act 2017.
