Environmental Sustainability Benchmarking
An annual snapshot of council's environmental sustainability performance.
Central to achieving council’s vision and meeting its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, is having a clear process in place to measure progress and make corrections where necessary.
Benchmarking provides a comparative annual snapshot of environmental sustainability aspects of business performance. It also provides a direct line-of-sight between council’s vision, corporate plan goals, operational activities and actual performance.
The following indicators measure, track and compare changes (increases or reductions) for the organisation each year:
- carbon (greenhouse gas) emissions
- waste generation and diversion
- energy (electricity and fuel) consumption and renewable energy
- transport (fleet vehicles and use of alternative transport such as public transport)
- water consumption
- environmental sustainability programs (number of programs and staff participation)
- environmental sustainability systems and process embedded across Council that deliver sustainability outcomes.
View the latest organisational environmental sustainability benchmarking report.