Winner Division C and Overall Category Winner 

City of Newcastle - Smart, Liveable and Sustainable Newcastle
City of Newcastle’s community strategic plan, Newcastle 2030, reflects the community's vision as a leading lifestyle city that is smart, liveable and sustainable.

Incorporating the UN Sustainable development goals, council’s guiding principles include considering the long term and cumulative effects of actions on future generations and to consider the principles of ecologically sustainable development.

These principles are embedded and reflected in Council’s Annual reporting framework and flow into strategic plans such as the 2020 Carbon and Water Management Action Plan, Smart City Strategy and the Newcastle Environmental Management Strategy along with many other plans and policies.

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Highly Commended - Division C 

Waverley Council - Embedding environmental sustainability at Waverley Council
Waverley’s Embedding Environmental Sustainability Project reflects Council’s mission to ‘walk the talk’ on positive environmental action. Underpinned by best-practice research, collaboration and engagement, this long-term project aims to make environmental sustainability systemic across Council operations, processes and policies.

So far, this long-term project has delivered improved resource efficiencies, expert sustainability training of staff; sustainability guiding procurement processes; sustainability criteria applied to recruitment, a zero waste program increasing waste diversion, and significant reductions in energy and water use, resulting in carbon emission reductions

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