Whether it’s Landcare, our local environment fund, our cleaner oceans strategy or the many programs we are funding to combat climate change, protecting our environment is a key priority across out beautiful coastal and rural electorate.

As committed at the 2019 federal election, the 2020 Budget includes the $6 million Wild Otways environmental program to protect native animals and natural habitat, and the $1.5 million Bellarine and Great Ocean Road Dunecare project to combat coastal erosion.

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

Achievements

As a result of these programs and policies, Australia

• is a world leader in renewable energy investment with one in five Australian homes now with rooftop solar panels;
• is embracing a range of clean energy technologies including in the electricity market;
• has exceeded its 2020 Kyoto emissions target by 411 million tonnes and is on track to meet and beat our 2030 Paris emissions target which is to reduce emissions to 26-28 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030. This target represents a 50-52 per cent reduction in emissions per capita and a 64-65 per cent reduction in the emissions intensity of the economy between 2005 and 2030; and