Noosa Council Organisational Carbon Footprint FY23/24

Brian Stockwell183:21

Thank you, I put it to the vote. Those in favour? Councillor? Yes. So that's unanimous noting that Councillor Wilson wasn't in the room and we can now invite Councillor Wilson back into the room, please. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Our next item is Noosa Council's organisational carbon footprint, financial year 23-24. And we have Cheyenne and. Eva? Emma? Heather. As well as Patrick. We'll just wait for Councillor Wilson to return. And also manager of strategic planning, Anita. Welcome back. So who was going to give us an executive summary?

I think they're on a pause to me. So this report is the Council's organisational carbon footprint and its recommended deployment noting. It's part of the footprint includes Council's expenditure data to date and also looks up sorry for last financial year and also includes emissions from our supply chain. The footprint was calculated in accordance with climate active methodology and was completed by our third party auditor. So the last financial year the footprint was determined to be forty five thousand one hundred eighteen tons of greenhouse gas emissions which is given in tons of co2 equivalent. The majority of emissions came from the landfill at forty seven percent. Next was professional services at fourteen percent which does include engineering services and also and then construction materials and services at thirteen percent. So Council started measuring its footprint since 2016 so that's taken as the baseline year. Since 2016 we've seen a total reduction of eighteen percent starting at fifty five thousand eight hundred and forty three tons. 2016 so we have achieved the eighteen percent reduction. We have seen an increase in utility rate related emissions but this has been offset by the significant reductions in emissions at the landfill and this is largely to the gas capture and flaring that occurs there if we exclude some of the emissions from our supply chain which are out of a direct control we've achieved closer to a 38 percent reduction in emissions since 2016 which is similar to other LGAs like the Sunshine Coast who's sitting at about 40 percent in direct emissions reduction. So the sustainability and climate change team has just begun working on a comprehensive Roadmap and investment strategy to net zero emissions and we will present this to Council later in the year and it will include priority areas to action. And our emissions reduction further to deal with our residual emissions that are sitting at about 45,000 tonnes.