Loddon Mallee Regional Zero Emissions Roadmap

Climate change is already having an impact on the Loddon Mallee region, and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is more urgent than ever. The region is a leader on climate action and has the potential to become one of Australia’s first regions to reach net zero emissions. This ambition creates a range of new economic, social, and cultural opportunities.

The Loddon Mallee Zero Emissions Roadmap focusses on investing in and strengthening human capacity to unlock significant emissions reductions across five key action areas – Leadership and Coordination, Energy, Transport, Agriculture, and Land – identifying flagship regional initiatives in area that will help our region to transition to net zero emissions.

The objectives of the Roadmap are to:

1. Improve collaboration; doing things together so we don’t need to do them separately and reinvent the wheel;
2. Achieve economies of scale; spreading outcomes to Shires and communities that have less resources or capacity to take action locally; and
3. Achieve equitable outcomes; ensuring that the transition to zero emissions has an equity lens and that no one in the region gets left behind.

The Roadmap has been developed through a collaboration between the City of Greater Bendigo, the Greater Bendigo Climate Change Collaboration, the Central Victorian Greenhouse Alliance, and the Loddon Campaspe Regional Partnership, Regional Development Victoria. It incorporates the outcomes of a range of stakeholder engagement activities conducted across the region throughout 2022-2023, including a Regional Zero Emissions Forum held in Castlemaine in March 2022.

To read more, check out the Loddon Mallee Zero Emissions Roadmap here.