Adelaide Low Carbon MovementCutting carbon emissions in Adelaide

Cutting carbon in Adelaide, one ordinary step at a time

Adelaide Low Carbon Movement is a community information site. It explains why emissions matter, what households and workplaces can do, and how an earlier city and state program tried to bring Adelaide organisations together.

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Take action

Plain steps for homes, workplaces, getting around and cutting waste, plus a straight answer on what offsets can and cannot do.

Take action

Earlier partners

A record of a selection of the organisations that were listed as partners of the earlier Carbon Neutral Adelaide program, with names and locations as they were recorded.

Earlier partners

Awards and news

A dated timeline of the earlier program and a record of its award rounds in 2019 and 2021.

News · Awards

Why this matters

Most of a city's emissions come from how its buildings are powered and how people and goods move around. Cleaner electricity does a lot of the work, and the rest comes from many small decisions: how a home is heated, what a business buys, how a trip is made. This site gathers those decisions in one readable place.

A short history note. From 2015 a partnership between the City of Adelaide and the Government of South Australia pursued a shared ambition for a carbon neutral city and ran a program called Carbon Neutral Adelaide. This site is not that program and has no connection with it; the history pages record what public sources say about how it went.

Start with the take action guide

Practical first steps for homes, workplaces and getting around are in the take action guide. You can also read how the earlier program organised its partners and awards.

Information site. Not a government program or a business: no bookings, quotes or dispatch.