Draft Climate Response Plan 2021-2031 Draft Climate Response Plan 2021-2031 (Version 2 – February 2021) Contents 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................ 3 2. Climate Response Planning .................................................................................................................................. 5 2.1 Sustainable Development Goals ........................................................................................................................ 5 3. Technical and Scientific Summary ........................................................................................................................ 7 3.1 Climatic Trends .................................................................................................................................................. 7 3.2 Knox City Council Emissions ............................................................................................................................... 9 3.3 Knox Community Emissions ............................................................................................................................. 11 3.4 Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals .................................................................................................................. 11 3.5 Knox’s Carbon Budget...................................................................................................................................... 12 4. The Economics of Climate Action ....................................................................................................................... 14 4.1 COVID-19 and Climate Action .......................................................................................................................... 14 4.2 Investment Appetite ........................................................................................................................................ 14 5. Climate Risk Assessment ................................................................................................................................... 16 6. Our Community ................................................................................................................................................. 18 6.1 Vulnerable and General Populations ................................................................................................................ 18 7. Our Natural and Built Environment .................................................................................................................... 22 7.1 Biodiversity ..................................................................................................................................................... 22 7.2 Green & Leafy Streets ...................................................................................................................................... 23 7.3 Active Transport .............................................................................................................................................. 25 8. Our Council ....................................................................................................................................................... 26 8.1 Energy ............................................................................................................................................................. 26 8.2 Buildings and Facilities ..................................................................................................................................... 26 8.3 Infrastructure .................................................................................................................................................. 27 8.4 Waste Management ........................................................................................................................................ 29 9. Guiding Principles .............................................................................................................................................. 31 10. Action Plan ........................................................................................................................................................ 33 11. Monitoring, Evaluation, Review and Learning ................................................................................................... 41 11.1 Progress Monitoring ...................................................................................................................................... 41 11.2 Impact Monitoring ......................................................................................................................................... 41 11.3 Evaluation Trigger .......................................................................................................................................... 41 11.4 Evaluation, Review and Learning ................................................................................................................... 42 12. References ........................................................................................................................................................ 43 Appendix A - Detail for Proposed Action Plan Interventions ...................................................................................... 45 Tables Table 1: Council’s Carbon Emissions from all scopes 2015 to 2020 ............................................................................ 10 Table 2: Knox Community Emissions 2017 – 2019 (Source: Snapshot Climate) ........................................................... 11 Table 3: Scaled science-derived target for City of Knox .............................................................................................. 12 Table 4: Summary of proposed corporate and community actions. ........................................................................... 33 Table 5: Summary of corporate mitigation actions .................................................................................................... 34 Table 6: Summary of community mitigation actions .................................................................................................. 36 Figures Figure 1: The Sustainable Development Goals (Source: United Nations) ...................................................................... 6 Figure 2: BOM 2019 and 2020 (respectively) annual mean temperatures compared to historical temperature observations. .............................................................................................................................................................. 7 Figure 3: DELWP Victoria's Climate Science Report 2019 ............................................................................................. 8 Figure 4: DELWP Victorian Climate Projections 2019 Technical Report ........................................................................ 9 Figure 5: Average annual temperatures for Knox, Scoresby Weather Station 1965 - 2019 ........................................... 9 Figure 6: Carbon Emissions from Council’s buildings and fleet. Scope 1, 2 and 3. ...................................................... 10 Figure 7: Knox emissions vs EAGA average, tonnes per capita 2017. .......................................................................... 11 Figure 8: Representation of City of Knox's municipal science-derived target if used linearly ...................................... 13 Figure 9: Heat vulnerability map Knox ....................................................................................................................... 18 Figure 10: Number of households participating in Knox Gardens for Wildlife ............................................................. 23 Figure 11: Tree cover as a percentage of total area 2018 ........................................................................................... 23 Figure 12: Percentage of change in tree canopy, 2014-2018 ...................................................................................... 24 Figure 13: Urban Heat Island effects in Knox 2018 ..................................................................................................... 24 Figure 14: Residences within 400m of public open space, 2018 ................................................................................. 25 Figure 15: Bushfire prone assets Boronia/Basin and Bayswater (respectively) ........................................................... 28 Figure 16: Bushfire prone assets Rowville .................................................................................................................. 29 Figure 17: Waste to landfill kilograms per household ................................................................................................ 30 Figure 18: Business-as-Usual GHG Emissions trajectory, including reductions from actions ....................................... 34 Figure 19: GHG Emissions Pathway: Efficiency Actions and Renewable Energy .......................................................... 48 Figure 20: Estimated impact of interventions for low emissions buildings through design in Knox ............................. 51 Figure 21: Estimated impact of facilitation of industrial working groups intervention in Knox .................................... 54 Figure 22: Estimated impact of industrial education intervention in Knox.................................................................