Climate positive councils

Climate positive strategies deliver the greatest benefits. Carbon emissions from an organisation and its value chain are less than the total carbon released into the atmosphere. Net zero strategies are when the amount of directly controlled carbon emissions it produces is no more than the amount they remove. Organisations reduce carbon emissions through efficiency, electrification and the circular economy.

Typically 80% to 90% of your local council’s carbon emissions are from waste, electricity, transport and construction activities. The notion of the circular economy provides the foundations for innovative, vertically integrated, local solutions that enables your local council to transition to be climate positive.

Imagine the positive outcomes from waste being converted to hydrogen to provide renewable power to the local council network and its suppliers. Akin to the council installing solar panels to reduce fossil fuel dependence, an end-to-end hydrogen technology suite positioned as a key element of a decarbonisation strategy for councils to transition to be climate positive, including its value chain.

This notion that this could be easily extended to providing Grade A hydrogen through locally produced and provided hydrogen and fast charging infrastructure then enables residents, suppliers, waste management, and transport businesses the confidence to invest in zero emission vehicles to address up to 11% pa of Australia’s current emissions in what are described as hard to abate sectors.