Healthy and clean local environments are so important to regional communities.

Whether it’s taking strong action on climate change, protecting local parks and reserves or safeguarding our unique flora and fauna, environmental protections are a key priority for the Morrison Government.

SUPPORTING LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS

The Morrison Government is supporting valuable grass-roots environmental projects being undertaken by the following groups:

• Bendigo Field Naturalists Club 
• Kyneton Racecourse and Recreation Reserve Incorporated
• Landcare Victoria
• Muckleford Catchment Landcare Group
• Upper Campaspe Landcare Network

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION

• Transforming Australia’s recycling sector with the $190 Recycling Modernisation Fund;
• Investing in environmental research through the $290 million National Environmental Science Program; and
• Delivering $200 million for urgent wildlife and habitat recovery projects in the wake of Australia’s devastating bushfires.

TAKING ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

The Morrison Government’s climate action programs include the following:  

• Emissions Reduction Fund
• Clean Energy Innovation Fund
• Renewable Energy Target
• Climate Active
• Support for low-emissions and carbon capture and storage
• Hydro-fluorocarbon management
• Taxation measures
• National Low Emissions Coal Initiative
• Energy efficiency measures
• Solar Communities Program
• Equipment Energy Efficiency (E3) program
• 20 Million Trees
• National Landcare Program
• ARENA
• National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme (NGERS)
• Asia-Pacific Rainforest Partnership
• Mission Innovation
• Blue Carbon
• Engaging with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Engaging with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Carbon Capture and Storage Research Development and Demonstration Fund
• Carbon Farming Futures

These programs are underpinned by the following Government policies on climate action:

• National Energy Productivity Plan
• Energy market reform
• National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy
• National Clean Air Agreement
• Australia’s international capacity building programs
• Reef 2050 Plan
• Safeguard mechanism