Case Studies
Use these case studies to develop project ideas, gain support from senior management and other staff or to model your own projects.
Planning for Climate Change
- Decision support for climate change adaptation: coastal councils, HCCREMS (PDF, 316KB)
- Distributed Energy Plan, Parkes Shire Council (PDF, 304KB)
- Greenhouse Action Plan, Eurobodalla Council (PDF, 308KB)
- Regional Climate Change Planning, Wellington, Blayney and Cabonne Alliance (PDF, 408KB)
- South Coast Regional Sea Level Rise - Planning and Policy Response Framework, Shoalhaven City and Eurobodalla Shire Councils (PDF, 109KB)
Adapting to Climate Change
- Safeguarding communication infrastructure against extreme heat, Albury City Council (PDF, 256KB)
- Cool streets, Blacktown City Council (PDF, 219KB)
- Dubbo CBD Heat Island Amelioration, Dubbo Regional Council (PDF, 108KB)
- Destratification system for Kyogle off-stream storage (PDF, 105KB)
- Citizen Science and Foreshore Inundation – Tidal Valves, Lake Macquarie City Council (PDF, 146KB)
- Adapting roads to climate change, Manly Council (PDF, 276KB)
- Guiding asset resilience in a changing climate, Northern Beaches Council (PDF, 191KB)
- Adapting to urban heat events: by mapping vulnerability hot spots, Penrith City and Leichhardt Council (PDF, 190KB)
- Gross Pollutant Trap Effectiveness, Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council (PDF, 136KB)
- Sussex Inlet and district strategic action plan: building community resilience, Shoalhaven City Council (PDF, 122KB)
- Adapting the Nowra CBD for cooling and amenity, Shoalhaven City Council (PDF, 312KB)
- Adapting to the increasing risk of mosquito-borne disease, Tweed Shire Council (PDF, 182KB)
- Mapping Sydney’s foodsheds, Wollondilly Shire Council (PDF, 247KB)
Community Engagement
- Building Climate Wise Communities, Ku-ring-gai Council (PDF, 111KB)
- The Climate Consensus Project, Uralla Shire Council (PDF, 256KB)
- Marks Point and Belmont South Adaptation Planning, Lake Macquarie City Council (PDF, 251KB)
- Sustainable Futures Day, Parkes Shire Council (PDF, 184KB)
Reducing Carbon Emissions
- Bankstown Library and Knowledge Centre, Bankstown City Council (PDF, 242 KB)
- Victoria Park Precinct Renewable Energy Project, Dubbo City Council (PDF, 109KB)
- Embracing energy efficiency, Lismore City Council (PDF, 230KB)
- Energy Efficient Carparks, Parramatta City Council (PDF 185KB)
- Sustainable Fleet Management, City of Sydney (PDF, 142KB)
- RHBEEP...ing the rewards, Tumut Shire Council (PDF, 121KB)
- Building Futures Program, Waverley Council (PDF, 151KB)
- Light Years Ahead, Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (PDF, 88KB)