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Plan targets net zero emissions by 2035
A municipal-wide target of zero net emissions by 2035 is a key feature of the City’s Draft Climate Change Response Plan.
The draft plan, which will guide the City’s corporate response and the community’s response to climate change issues and impacts, was endorsed for release by Council last night.
The key target is supported by an action plan that addresses priority areas of community support, energy, transport, waste and climate resilience.
It lists a number of principles that would see the region become a zero- emission, climate ready city, including:
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CSIRO maps Darwins hot spots and heat-health vulnerability
On the back of Darwin’s record-breaking November heat, scientists from Australia’s national science agency CSIRO have released two reports, one mapping the city’s surface temperatures and one providing strategies to deal with urban heat.
Researchers mapped Darwin’s land surface temperatures after the wet season and in the dry season, including thermal ‘hot spots’ and areas of potential high heat-health vulnerability.
Lead researchers Jacqui Meyers and Dr Brenda Lin have also proposed heat mitigation strategies for the future.
Ms Meyers said surface temperature hot spots in Darwin include:
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