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 ...

The Spotted-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus is a distinctive marsupial carnivore endemic to eastern Australia, where it is widely distributed from north-eastern Queensland to Tasmania. Three separate ...

The Matted Flax-lily (Dianella amoena) is a small, perennial, tufted lily endemic to Victoria, where it is distributed from the south-west to the east of the State, occurring in grassland and grassy ...

The eastern subspecies of the Regent Parrot Polytelis anthopeplus monarchoides (herein referred to as the eastern Regent Parrot) is restricted to a single population occurring in inland south-eastern ...

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 ...

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