Environment and Sustainability

We are committed to improving environmental sustainability outcomes, both across Council’s own business and the wider District. Our community have indicated that environmental sustainability should be a top priority for Council.

We live in a beautiful natural environment, but our environment is facing some major challenges and needs to be valued. We recognise that there has been insufficient emphasis on protecting and enhancing environmental sustainability in our previous work and existing plans. Through our Environment and Sustainability Strategy, we are shifting the focus from trying to fit the environment around us, to working to actively improve and fit within our environment.

Smart, targeted investment in low-emissions practices, technologies and infrastructure will create jobs and will ensure our communities are better off, both now and into the future. Increasing the sustainability of our projects and investment decisions will also reduce our future exposure to the physical, social and cultural impacts of climate change and increasing environmental degradation.