The Blue Carbon Conservation, Restoration and Accounting Program will help pave the way for scaling up investment in coastal blue carbon ecosystems, support management decisions, and contribute to ...

The following information is provided by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) to clarify its position regarding the purpose of the List of Specimens taken to be ...

Map of threatened ecological communities in NSW and the ACT (Map 1 of 2) The map below shows areas in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory where threatened ecological communities may ...

What is the EPBC Act? The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the EPBC Act) is the Australian Government's central piece of environmental legislation. The EPBC Act provides ...

The 2018 National Waste Policy provides a framework for collective action by businesses, governments, communities and individuals until 2030. The policy identifies five overarching principles ...

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, April 2025. See how our department is structured. This includes our divisions, agencies and statutory office holders.

Australian Government submissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. Our department publishes a series of comprehensive reports and databases that ...

'Criteria air pollutants' is a term used internationally to describe air pollutants that have been regulated and are used as indicators of air quality. The regulations or standards are based on ...

Wasted food represents significant costs to households and businesses in Australia and has environmental consequences as well. The need to improve food waste data and information was identified as a ...

Sustainable development has become a goal for all Australian governments seeking to balance the health of the environment with the health of the economy. The predominant vision of a sustainable built ...

The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (the Ramsar Convention) was signed in Ramsar, Iran on 2 February 1971. The Ramsar Convention aims to halt the worldwide loss of wetlands and to ...

Understanding and documenting ecological character is central to maintaining and protecting the values of internationally and nationally important wetlands. As part of the Ramsar Convention, ...