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It's YOUR CITY – we want to hear YOUR VOICE

...on how we respond to climate change.

Draft Climate Response Strategy open for feedback

Climate change is already affecting our community. We are experiencing hotter days, more heatwaves, heavy rain, flooding, storms, and impacts on nature, health and wellbeing.

Council recently reviewed the Climate Emergency Strategy 2020–25 and the Climate Emergency Action Plan 2021–25. The review showed strong community support for climate action and highlighted the need for a clearer, more practical plan that is easier to understand, deliver and measure.

In response, we have prepared a draft Climate Response Strategy (draft Strategy) and 18-month action plan.

The draft Strategy sets out:

  • our key priorities and actions
  • long-term targets to reduce emissions and prepare people for climate impacts
  • how we will track progress and report on results.

Learn more about our priorities and share what you're doing to address climate change. Feedback by midnight Sunday 18 October 2026.

Priorities and actions

What we're committing to

This is what Council will focus on over the life of the Strategy.

We've developed a set of 20 actions for the Climate Response Strategy. The first action plan will cover an initial 18-month period to establish priority actions, build internal systems and maintain visible progress.

This will be followed by three successive 3-year action plans across the life of the Strategy.

Learn more about the first action plan open in new window

Share your ideas

Wanting more?

Head to the project page to read the draft Strategy and share detailed feedback.

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