Sustainability at ACT Government

ACT government is fairly committed to reducing environmental impacts, through wider public policy as well as intergovernmental arrangements

As a territory government, they have a strong focus on programs that influence sustainability e.g. active travel, walk to work day, etc. I don't know much about this space but the designs of the office buildings are sustainable as well.

All offices have recycling/compost/waste bins. ACT Gov has a net zero policy by 2045

Reducing environmental impact is not heavily focused on but an example is the travel policy encourage public transport when it is more convenient, safe or cost-effective.

We are the government. This is a political question on whether or not I believe that the government is doing enough to address sustainability, so I'll leave it down the middle.

Great.

A lot of the communication and messaging comes across as tokenistic.

Somewhat great in projects, but will fall to the wayside where deadlines or program require it. It's not a number 1 consideration. Although embedded in most projects as required by the Territory, it is not holistic across the organisation. We don't even have composting at Callam. It's poor form.

MPC is always taking less emission and green material as an important criterion in the tender and project delivery.

Mostly good. Someone should ban printers in health policy.

Turning Canberra into a Net-Zero emission city is one of the main priorities of the ACT PS

We are operating paperless, and most employees bring lunch from home which would mean less plastic waste.

ACT government is focused on the sustainability so has forwarded various projects on the green forest, zero-emissions, free incentives for installing the solar panel in the household, providing 150004 interest free loan to the family to install insulation stove and focused on the renewable sources.

The ACTPS is enacting the ACT Climate Change Strategy 2019-2025, and therefore is a focus of the organisation.

I can't even scratch the full extent of the ACTPS' green initiatives in this answer, but they do a lot. They got the ACT to 100% renewable energy in 2020 and are working on net zero emissions by 2045. They do a lot of conservation and environmental protection work, and I'm involved in their living infrastructure work about greening the city for climate change adaptation and mitigation and biodiversity conservation.

ACT Government supports initiatives to reduce environmental impact (food waste composted in all buildings)

Our new building will be fully electric, green star rated etc. We are also moving towards fully electronic records to reduce paper usage. All of our offices encourage recycling of plastics and food scraps, as well as batteries, old tech equipment and more.

They won an environmental award last year

The company try to prioritise sustainability in their fleet and building design. We are also going paper-lite and it is our job to plant trees throughout the city, and encourage public transport and active travel to the community as healthier alternatives to polluting modes of transport.

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