Melville's Emissions

City of Melville Part of Initiative

City of Melville is one of four LG’s in WA and 23 Australia wide to be part of this initiative.

The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy is the largest international alliance of Cities and local governments with a shared long-term vision of promoting and supporting action to combat climate change and move to a low emission, resilient society.

City of Melville Mayor Russell Aubrey signed the pledge to this covenant and strengthened our City’s endeavours to be a globally benchmarked low-emission and climate resilient community.

As the first step under the pledge, the City conducted a baseline estimation of emissions in 2017 using the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories and found that the City’s total annual community emissions were around 1,181kt CO2-e.

The largest source of emissions in the City was found to be stationary energy, which mainly comprises electricity consumed by buildings and facilities and accounted for 48 per cent of the total emissions of the City. Meanwhile, on-road transportation was responsible for 30%, emissions from solid waste accounts for 7% and emissions from wastewater were 15% of the total emission of the City.

City of Melville's Top Focus Areas for Emission Reduction