Published on Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 11:59:16 AM
Reducing community consumption, costs and carbon emissions are just some of the benefits residents will see first-hand through the City’s new partnership with ClimateClever.
ClimateClever is an online platform allowing users to track their carbon footprint by recording their electricity, gas and water usage allowing Albany to be benchmarked with other regions across Australia.
The platform builds a personalised action plan that tracks emissions and annual costs to shows how each resident’s household consumption impacts their carbon footprint.
City of Albany Chief Executive Officer Andrew Sharpe said this is the first time the City have had the ability to develop community targets and give feedback straight to the user.
“We have an aspiration for Albany to be clean, green and sustainable so implementing community driven initiatives like ClimateClever allow us to identify and deliver improvements in sustainability within the wider community”
“This partnership will allow residents to reduce their costs as well as their carbon footprint and be part of transformational change in the way we view our usage” he said.
ClimateClever Founder and CEO Dr Vanessa Rauland said this is about demonstrating what we can all do individually to achieve a collaborative community goal.
“The platform is used in schools and households across Australia to educate and empower communities around sustainability and climate action, and to help celebrate collective achievements” she said.
“ClimateClever is for those who are wanting to take personal action on climate change, are concerned about rising energy costs or who want to live in a climate resilient community.”
The City of Albany have a free founding subscription to the ClimateClever platform for the first 50 residents who sign up at https://www.climateclever.org/homes?partner=albanywa
Subsidised memberships are available for remaining residents to get involved at $15 annually.
To get more information contact the City of Albany Environmental Sustainability Officer Mary Holt at 6820 3972 or [email protected]
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