2019-06-11 P&E Agenda - Item 7 - Attachment 1 - Environment Strategy

Council extracts the methane and flares or burns it                 This includes:
to convert the methane to CO2, and is implementing
initiatives to reduce organic matter going to landfill and          •    community education, behaviour change and
investigating treatment options.                                         capacity building to transition to a net zero emissions
                                                                         community
The Noosa Shire annual community emissions have                     •    provision of grants to community groups to assist
been estimated at 500,000t CO2, in accordance with                       them reduce their own carbon footprint
the Greenhouse Gas Global Protocol for community-
scale greenhouse gas emissions inventories. The                     •    facilitation of initiatives/schemes that promote the
largest source of community emissions in Noosa Shire                     communities uptake of renewable energy
is stationary energy, which mainly comprises electricity            •    lobbying State and Federal government to address
consumed by residential buildings as well as commercial                  barriers to the take up of renewable energy and
and institutional facilities.                                            sustainable building design

As a part of the Noosa community, Noosa Council                     •    facilitating alternative transport options and
contributes to the Shire’s greenhouse gas emissions, and                 infrastructure in line with the Transport Strategy
has direct control over the greenhouse gas emissions of             •    working in partnership with community groups to
its own operations and services. As well as reducing its                 achieve a net zero emissions community.
own operational emissions however, Council recognises
its role to support the Noosa community to reduce its
emissions overall in line with the required global emission
reductions, and our own targets.




                                          Noosa Shire Carbon Footprint



                                                             8%1%



                                                    33%
                                                                         58%




                                Stationary Energy       Transportation     Waste        Wastewater




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