{"id":4210,"date":"2019-11-13T16:14:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2019-11-13T16:14:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:14:24","slug":"city-of-newcastle-recognises-climate-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/11\/13\/city-of-newcastle-recognises-climate-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Newcastle recognises climate emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"

City of Newcastle recognised in a council resolution of 28 May 2019 that there is a global climate emergency and urgent need for real\u00a0action on climate change.
\nIt reaffirmed a commitment to a just economic transition for coal mining communities, including support for investment in hydrogen as an export energy, construction of large-scale renewables and pumped hydro, and manufacturing of electric vehicles.
\nEnvironmental activists are encouraged by the City to consider the broader impact of their actions, and work towards consensus across the political spectrum, under the same resolution of Council.
\nMore than 1,180 jurisdictions and local governments in 23 countries have also declared a climate emergency, according to the International Climate Emergency Forum (ICEF).
\nAs part of the City\u2019s actions, 100 per cent of our electricity will come from\u00a0renewable sources<\/a>\u00a0from January 1 2020, when we will become the first local government in NSW to do so.
\nThe Climate Emergency Declaration campaign in Australia is backed by more than 50 climate action groups, including the ICEF and Greenpeace Australia.
\nTaking further action, we\u2019re improving the energy efficiency of our buildings, replacing our street lights with\u00a0energy-saving LEDS<\/a>\u00a0and finishing construction on a\u00a0five-megawatt solar farm<\/a>\u00a0on a former landfill site after securing a \u00a0$6.5 million loan from Australia\u2019s Clean Energy Finance Corporation in 2018<\/a>.
\nAs our single largest investment in a renewable project, it follows eight other solar installations at\u00a0our Waratah Works Depot<\/a>,\u00a0Art Gallery<\/a>,<\/a>City,\u00a0<\/a>Wallsend and\u00a0New Lambton libraries,\u00a0<\/a>No.1<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0No.2 Sportsgrounds<\/a>\u00a0and Newcastle Museum.
\nThe solar farm at the Summerhill Waste Management Centre builds on one of Australia’s most advanced renewable energy setups at a waste facility – with a 2.2megawatt landfill gas generator and a small wind turbine also located onsite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City of Newcastle recognised in a council resolution of 28 May 2019 that there is a global climate emergency and urgent need for real\u00a0action on climate change. It reaffirmed a commitment to a just economic transition for coal mining communities, including support for investment in hydrogen as an export energy, construction of large-scale renewables and … Continue reading “City of Newcastle recognises climate emergency”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}