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> 7 million
TREES PLANTED
since 1997
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Bayside City Council
Fuel Offset
538 tonnes of CO2-e
Bayside City Council recognises the significance of climate change and the opportunities for urban communities to reduce their net greenhouse gas emissions. Through its participation in the Cities for Climate Protection Program, Bayside is progressively implementing strategies for reducing emissions and counteracting the emissions that remain. This broad program encompasses the whole Bayside community and its use of energy.
Bayside City Council is aware that its own vehicle fleet makes a notable contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and is delivering a program for reducing and neutralising this source and showing leadership to the local community. Council has changed the profile of its vehicle fleet to encourage alternate, lower greenhouse, fuels such as LPG. Combined with a flagship petrol-electric hybrid vehicle, the direct greenhouse emissions of Council's vehicle fleet have been reduced.
Greenfleet has been embraced by Council as a means of neutralising the remaining greenhouse emissions from the vehicle fleet. Council also recognises the additional benefits that tree planting brings to the environment and local communities. Greenfleet is a convenient way for Bayside City Council to move a step closer to environmental sustainability.