Reducing Council’s carbon emissions to zero by 2025 makes great environmental and financial sense and two of Council’s latest carbon reduction projects are helping to achieve that goal.

As the unforgettable year of 2020 draws to a close, so to does the 20th Anniversary of the Greater Blue Mountains region being granted World Heritage status by the United Nations. 

Blue Mountains City Council has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Western Sydney University and the Monash Sustainable Development Institute to explore opportunities to work together on the establishment of a Planetary Health Leadership Centre in Katoomba. 

A new initiative ‘Zero Waste Leura’ was launched at Leura Garage on 25 November. The event marked the start of a year-long partnership project that aims to achieve ‘zero food waste’ in Leura and beyond.

Community enthusiasm for environmental conservation has grown this year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, with the formation of one new Bushcare – and two Landcare – groups in the Blue Mountains. 

Residents and visitors travelling through the Blue Mountains will be reminded to watch out for wildlife thanks to new signage.

Blue Mountains Mayor, Cr Mark Greenhill OAM, has been named Climate Ambassador of the Year at the national Cities Power Partnership Awards held last night (29 October 2020).

Blue Mountains City Council has won two awards at Local Government NSW’s Excellence in the Environment Awards.

Efforts to protect and conserve several rare and endangered forest areas in the Blue Mountains will be amplified, after Council was awarded a $350,000 grant by the NSW Environmental Trust.

As we celebrate 20 years as a City within a World Heritage Area, the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre is launching critical mass: the art of planetary health on 3 October to lead a conversation about the emerging science of Planetary Health.