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 ...

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 ...

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The importance of Commonwealth heritage places is recognised through the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, which contains provisions for management and protection of those ...

This report is one in a series of three reports focused on the Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone (THPSS) ecological community and longwall coal mining. The THPSS is listed as a threatened ...

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 ...

In 2009 a scientific Expert Working Group was established, primarily in response to the decline of the Christmas Island pipistrelle, (Pipistrellus murrayi), the island's only insectivorous bat. The ...

The Eastern Curlew is a large wading bird that breeds in China and Russia and then migrates to coastal regions in Australia, south-east Asia and Papua New Guinea. Global populations are declining ...