Climate Ready Hobart

"Please make it urgent. Real urgent."

– Member of the Hobart Climate Assembly, March 2024.

The community spoke, we listened.

Climate change is happening and impacting Hobart.

Every tonne of climate pollution we cut now, will save lives in the future.

Each step we take to increase our capacity to cope with worsening climate-driven impacts, will help us recover faster and build back better.

Responding to climate change requires everyone to act.

This is why the City of Hobart has launched the Climate Ready Hobart Strategy to guide what we can to do together to respond to the climate and biodiversity emergency as we move towards 2040.

Climate Ready Hobart Strategy(PDF, 13MB)

The strategy presents high level goals to:

• Mobilise Hobart – helping everyone to take action
• Zero emissions Hobart – tackling the root cause of climate change by reducing emissions
• Climate resilient Hobart – improving our capacity to adapt and cope
• Lead as a capital city – how the City of Hobart as a municipal organisation will lead by example

The City of Hobart has a strong foundation in taking climate action for more than twenty years and we can do more by working together with the community.

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Recognition

CDP A List 2024

City of Hobart was awarded an 'A' score from CDP.

An 'A' score was awarded as we demonstrated:

• best practice standards across adaptation and mitigation
• set ambitious goals and made progress towards achieving those goals.

We also showed we have strategic, holistic plans in place. These plans ensure the actions we are taking will reduce climate impacts and vulnerabilities of:

• people
• businesses
• organisations.

Learn more on the CDP website.

2025 National Awards for Planning Excellence

We were awarded the Stakeholder Engagement award from the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA). This was awarded for our Hobart Climate Assembly project.

The award recognises initiatives and outcomes in implementing best practice public engagement, that:

• achieves genuine collaborative outcomes
• leads to improved built form, planning processes or social outcomes.

Learn more on the PIA website or our media release.

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