Environmental Action Plan

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The Environmental Action Plan 2022 – 2032 (EAP) is the fifth iteration of Council’s principal sustainability roadmap. The action plan sets out key targets, recognising Waverley’s environment is already experiencing the impacts of climate change and pollution. By addressing environmental risks together, we can make our community more sustainable, stronger and safer.

The EAP is structured around five key target areas:

  1. Sustainability leadership, where Council takes an active role in delivering positive environmental outcomes. This is centred around the key areas of facilitating the circular economy and responsible waste management, eliminating Council’s own greenhouse gas emissions and empowering community-led environmental actions.
  2. Climate resilience is focussed on community reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, improving the efficiency of buildings, switching to low emissions transport and preparing for and adapting to the impacts of climate change.
  3. Sustainable water maps out actions to minimise stormwater pollution, improve beach water quality, manage risks to coastal and marine environments, recycle as much water as possible and reduce water use in the community.
  4. Managing waste and sustainable materials goes beyond avoiding landfill, with a focus on the circular economy of re-using and recycling materials in new and innovative ways. Waste is a frontline responsibility not only for households, but local businesses, construction sites and Council itself.
  5. Urban ecology speaks to the importance of safeguarding Waverley’s remaining six hectares of remnant native vegetation and supporting biodiversity habitat through increasing green cover and connectivity, development and invasive species controls and fostering marine protection.

Explore Council’s full range of Sustainability policy and research.