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Victoria’s Climate Change Strategy 2026-30
Victoria has updated its Climate Change Strategy and associated transport pledge: The strategy points out that 26% of Victoria’s emissions are from transport, and most of that is from cars: The strategy states that we’ll use the avoid-shift-improve method to reduce transport emissions, i.e.: Again, we recommend that the best way to achieve these aims,…
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DoT pledges 25% mode share for active transport by 2030
The state government Department of Transport has released a pledge to reduce emissions from the transport sector. The pledge highlights the benefits of investing in public and active transport to reduce congestion and emissions: The pledge includes an increase in the mode share of active transport to 25% by 2030. Notably, the pledge includes a…
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Implementation of the Climate Emergency Plan
Item 8.5 on the agenda for the Yarra Council meeting on 16th March 2021 is a report on the “Implementation of the Climate Emergency Plan”. The report claims that “solid” and “strong” progress has been made to implementing the plan. We disagree, here’s why. Key issues Council has declared a climate emergency, and adopted a…
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Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit
Version 1.0 of the Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit has been published: The toolkit helpfully describes different roles in local government, including that of Councillors, the Chief Executive Officer, and Council employees: Section C describes actions that local government can take on transport: Best-practice actions on transport are described as committing 5% of the Council…
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Investing in cycling and walking to achieve net zero
The City of Yarra has declared a climate emergency – recognising that we all need to do more to reduce our collective carbon emissions. The UK Parliament has an All-Parliamentary Group for Cycling and Walking, which hosted a webinar on investing in cycling and walking to help achieve net zero emissions. Presenters in webinar made…
