2019-06-11 P&E Agenda - Item 7 - Attachment 2 - Environment Strategy Implementation Plan

Theme 4 - Climate change adaptation and resilience
Goal: By 2030 the resilience of the Noosa community and environment has increased.

Target                            Baseline                                          How we will measure progress
Strategy 4.1 Reduce emissions and resource consumption
Noosa Council operations          In 2018, Council’s operational carbon footprint   Council will continue to calculate its operational carbon
and service activities, and the   was approximately 50,000 CO2 tonnes per           footprint annually which includes calculating emissions from
Noosa community as a whole,       annum.                                            fuel, refrigerants, electricity, fugitive emissions from the
will reach zero net emissions                                                       landfill, and emissions embedded in the goods and services
by 2026                           The Noosa Shire annual community emissions        purchased and used by Council.
                                  have been calculated in 2018 as 500,000 CO2
                                  tonnes per annum.                                 Community emissions will be calculated every three years.




Strategy 4.2: Increase community resilience and capacity to adapt to climate change
By 2030, community                A baseline is to be developed of current          Biennial survey to be developed for residential, commercial
awareness, planning and           understanding of the future climate change        and industrial properties.
preparedness for natural          impacts and community preparedness and
hazards and climate change        actions related to these.
is increased.
Strategy 4.3: Manage the natural environment in a way that improves resilience
              to climate change
Ecosystem health of wetlands In 2018, mapped riparian buffers, as identified Mapping of vegetation buffers will be reviewed every three
and riparian areas is        in the Noosa Planning Scheme, had vegetation years.
improved.                    coverage of 41.8%.

                                  A baseline will be developed to measure
                                  ecosystem health of coastal wetlands.




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