• Climate Change

Creating a cooler, greener, wilder, and climate-resilient Adelaide

In July 2020, the government of South Australia established Green Adelaide, a statutory board dedicated to transforming Adelaide into a cooler, greener, wilder, and climate-resilient city, while celebrating its unique culture. Green Adelaide serves as the region’s first urban landscape specialist, focusing on fostering the city’s connection with nature and driving environmental action across the metropolitan area.

Operating across 17 council areas and encompassing a third of the Gulf St Vincent, Green Adelaide promotes pro-environmental behavior through partnerships, investments, educational initiatives, and on-the-ground environmental projects. The board’s mission is to inspire sustainable change and enhance the city’s urban environment.

Green Adelaide has seven goals and four iconic projects. Green Adelaide’s work is guided by these goals, while the iconic projects are multi-year, large scale projects which require multi-partners to achieve the vision.

Green Adelaide’s work is organized around seven key goals:

• Conserve and restore coastal and marine habitats and biodiversity
• Deliver social and cultural benefits through water resource management
• Enhance industry and community capacity for greener urban infrastructure
• Increase urban green cover’s extent and quality
• Conserve, restore, and expand habitats for native flora and fauna
• Address the impacts of pests and overabundant species
• Inspire communities to value and connect with nature

Additionally, Green Adelaide oversees four iconic, multi-year projects that involve collaboration across various sectors to achieve the city’s green vision:

• Rewilding urban landscapes
• Greening streets, open spaces, and backyards
• Making Adelaide the world’s second National Park City, following London’s example, by fostering deeper connections between people and nature within the urban environment
• Restoring Kaurna cultural practices, in recognition of the Traditional Aboriginal owners of the lan

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• Context
  • POPULATION: 4 500 00
  • GDP (US$): 81,5 B$

• Key Factor
  • Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting
• Reference
  • GREEN ADELAIDE WEBSITE
  • GREEN ADELAIDE’S 2020-21 BUSINESS PLAN
  • DRAFT FIVE YEAR GREEN ADELAIDE REGIONAL LANDSCAPE PLAN