Cities for Climate Protection™

Bayside City Council joined CCP and is committed to achieving five milestones through passing a council resolution.

• Milestone 1: Conduct an emissions inventory and estimate emissions growth
• Milestone 2: Establish an Emissions reduction goal.
• Milestone 3: Develop a Local Action Plan.
• Milestone 4: Implement the Local Action Plan.
• Milestone 5: Monitor and report on implementation of the Local Action Plan

Bayside has undertaken milestones one to five of the CCP program, and has moved onto the CCP Plus Program.

This part of the program allows Council to focus on areas such as encouraging greenhouse friendly local economic development and developing strategies to adapt to climate change. Actions taken through the program include:

• The purchasing of Green Power for buildings and streetlights
• The development of a building register auditing program
• The purchasing of more fuel-efficient vehicles
• The introduction of worm farming at council’s corporate centre
• New LCD energy star rating computer screens and other energy efficient office equipment.

Measurement of energy consumption allows us to look at where we can save energy and money. This will allow us to focus investment on areas where the biggest efficiencies can be made.

Bayside's greenhouse emission profile

Research into Bayside's energy use reveals:

• Total energy consumption for the municipality was 764 183 (GJ), resulting in thousands of tonnes of greenhouse gas. This is enough energy to power the MCG lights continuously for 13.5 years.
• The average household in Bayside uses 66.9 GJ per year, equivalent to 11 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide. We drove a total of 790 million kilometres, more than enough to travel to the sun and back twice.
• A tonne of CO2 is added each year by every passenger vehicle on the road.