Climate Ready Canning

Climate Ready Canning is the City of Canning’s Vision for a Climate Resilient City.

Climate change is here. The world’s leading climate scientists confirm that we are experiencing changes in climate now that are considered inevitable and irreversible.¹

What does this mean for our future? Regardless whether little, strong or ambitious global action is taken to reduce emissions, Perth’s climate is expected to become harsher.^1,2 This means not only do we need to take action to mitigate our emissions, we also need to adapt to our changing climate.

This has led the City to develop Climate Ready Canning (PDF 4MB) – a 10-year vision to create a thriving, sustainable and climate resilient future in Canning. It commits the City to supporting our community to reduce their emissions, build resilience and implement sustainability and climate actions.

The priorities are grouped into three key themes:

• Our Natural Environment – water, natural areas and city greening.
• Our Built Environment – energy, waste and circular economy, sustainable transport and built form.
• Our People – community education, collaboration and capacity.

To learn more about what is happening in these areas, visit the Sustainability page.

References

1. Calvin, K., Dasgupta, D., Krinner, G., Mukherji, A., Thorne, P. W., Trisos, C., Romero, J., Aldunce, P., Barrett, K., Blanco, G., Cheung, W. W. L., Connors, S., Denton, F., Diongue-Niang, A., Dodman, D., Garschagen, M., Geden, O., Hayward, B., Jones, C., … Ha, M. (2023). IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.59327/IPCC/AR6-9789291691647
2. Department of Water and Environment Regulation. (2021). Western Australian climate projections: summary.