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Surrey, BC monitors progress toward a zero-carbon city with its Climate Action Tracker
Surrey's Climate Action Change Strategy (CACS) calls for a 45% emissions reduction by 2030 on the way to net-zero operations by 2050. The Climate Action Tracker leads with a graph of recent and current emission levels compared to the 2030 goal. Visuals show the city's progress on CACS initiatives including completed, in-progress, and scheduled projects. Users can also investigate goals and targets in six areas like Resilient 15-Minute Neighbourhoods.
Surrey, BC
Canada
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council, GB builds machine learning solution using Microsoft Fabric
Wirral and Simpson Associates will take a multi-stage approach to developing an in-house modeling platform for strategic planning. The first step uses synthetic data for staff training on the Fabric-based solution. Borough departments will determine use cases for data analytics before testing machine learning solutions. This project aims for reliable predictions of neighborhood-level service needs and demographic trends.
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council, GB
United Kingdom
Northern Beaches, NSW tracks progress on climate change mitigation with new dashboard
The Environment and Climate Change Dashboard monitors the council's 20-year campaign for a healthy environment. Dashboard users find visualizations in four strategic areas including Sustainable Built Environment and Council Operations. For example, the Sustainable Living page includes a suburb-by-suburb map of carbon emissions and a four-year graph of water use. Council officials built the platform with data from sources including Beachwatch, the Bureau of Meteorology, and Kinesis.
Northern Beaches, NSW
Australia
Whistler, BC Community Monitoring Dashboard tracks progress toward Official Community Plan goals
The dashboard gathers data from local surveys, Statistics Canada, and service providers. There are performance snapshots of recent trends in OCP core pillars including Tourism Based Economy and Sense of Place. A Corporate Indicators section evaluates positive, neutral, and negative trends in six corporate plan goals like Accountability and Infrastructure. Dashboard users also learn about trends in resort development, snowfall, and population growth in the Facts & Figures section.
Whistler, BC
Canada
Christchurch City Council, NZ creates Climate Change Risk Screening for built and natural domains
City officials and community members identified climate trends through the end of the 21st century. These consultations identified long-term impacts for the entire region including fewer annual frosts, extreme rainfall, and saltwater intrusion. The 40-page report listed high-priority risks in six Climate Risk Assessment Areas based on minor, moderate, or significant risk levels. A risk matrix provides a baseline for measuring future climate mitigation and adaptation efforts.
Christchurch City Council, NZ
New Zealand
Chapel Hill, NC Complete Community Strategy addresses housing needs with pilot projects
An October 2021 report identified a lack of housing variety for groups like seniors and first-time homebuyers. The Complete Community Strategy advocates for small infill projects, redeveloped commercial lots, and expanded transit corridors. Initial pilots under this strategy include a campaign for greenway growth funding and converting office buildings into connected neighborhoods. City officials use an eight-point checklist for pilot selection including social equity, impact, and scalability.
Chapel Hill, NC
United States
eThekwini, KZN tracks progress toward livability goals for all residents with Strategic Hub
Municipal officials spent three years designing what they refer to as their single source of truth. The Strategic Hub houses dashboards on topics like road crashes, social sentiments, and property trends. A Livability Index scores each suburb's livability based on metrics in nine categories like education and transportation. The Greenbook Metro View supports comparisons of eThekwini's multi-dimensional vulnerabilities to 212 other local governments in South Africa.
eThekwini, KZN
South Africa
Gladstone, QLD publishes Australian-first Economic Transition Roadmap toward sustainable growth
Gladstone worked with The Next Economy on a multi-year engagement of industry stakeholders and residents. The 10-year plan sets benchmarks for Gladstone's evolution into an energy superpower. These goals include diversifying the manufacturing economy and shifting from carbon-intensive processes to hydrogen power by 2032. The Economic Transition Roadmap also calls for proactive upskilling of workers for emerging fields and maximizing the benefits of green energy for community members.
Gladstone, QLD
Australia
Avondale, AZ Strategic Plan Dashboard presents city's progress toward long-term goals
The dashboard opens with an indicator showing progress toward the core purpose of Making Lives Better. Advancements in Strategic Outcome Areas (SOA) like Creative and Sustainable Community Development are shown as percentages. These percentages are based on visualizations of completed capital projects for each SOA strategy. Residents and community leaders can follow Avondale's work in 29 Key Performance Indicators from a single resource.
Avondale, AZ
United States
Canada Bay, NSW Resource Recovery and Waste Strategy takes multi-faceted approach to sustainability
The strategy established 90 actions across five goals including illegal dumping reduction and increased recycling rates. An Apartment Recycling Program used educational stickers, bin audits, and participant pledges for recycling improvements across 1,500 units in 18 buildings. The Love Your Place initiative equips businesses and neighborhood groups to maintain green spaces. Local officials also built studies of innovations from bin tracking technologies to recycling incentives into the plan.
Canada Bay, NSW
Australia
Casey, VIC Evolve Home/Land gathers employee visions for the city through creative exercises
City employees were asked to visualize Casey's evolution over the next decade using recyclable cardboard. Individual models were turned into a public installation by artists Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan. The Evolve Home/Land display demonstrated Casey's potential areas of growth to in-person and remote viewers. Local officials combined creative insights from the installation with workshop comments when drafting Casey's Organisation and Transformation strategies.
Casey, VIC
Australia
Central Coast, NSW Green Grid: Our Place creates long-term plan for interconnected open spaces
Central Coast found that 89% of residents lived within 400 meters of public land but much of that space needed improvements for use. Green Grid: Our Place creates a 20-year strategy for improving open spaces with a focus on climate resiliency and livability. The plan establishes intertwined actions within six sub-grids like Agricultural, Cultural, and Recreational. Council officials shaped the first-in-state plan based on 12 workshops and a one-month public feedback period.
Central Coast, NSW
Australia