The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder (CEWH) has reached a significant milestone, delivering 20,000 gigalitres of ...

Under section 194P of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, the Minister may extend the assessment completion time for entities on the Finalised Priority Assessment List.

shipwrecks sunken aircraft other underwater heritage sites across Oceania and Southeast Asia. The AUCHD is also a register of protected artefacts from these sites. These are protected under the ...

Infographic with national emissions data for the year to June 2025. Shows total emissions are 437.5 Mt CO2-e, down 2.2% on the previous year. Sector changes shown in boxes. Changes in electricity ...

Around 60% of the world’s ocean is beyond national jurisdiction. These areas are known as the high seas. What happens on the high seas can affect Australia's environment. The high seas: support marine ...

The Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Water Interests (CAWI) includes water experts from across the country. Members were chosen for their water expertise, not based on their Nation.

In June 2024, Environment Ministers agreed to the National Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECM) Framework. This framework enables the recognition of land-based OECMs in Australia, ...

The Quarterly Update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory reports on the latest greenhouse gas emissions. This update provides estimates of: national emissions up to the December quarter ...

research to support the management of oceans and coastlines a information to help monitor plants, animals and ecosystems tools to track environmental change tools to support planning and decisions ...

We are committed to improving packaging sustainability and the co-regulatory arrangement to reduce the environmental impacts of packaging. Australia’s national co-regulatory framework for packaging ...

The Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF) supports nationally significant infrastructure that is expanding Australia’s capacity to sort, process and remanufacture: glass plastic tyres paper cardboard.

education, compliance, and enforcement issuing permits and licences assessing projects and setting approval conditions (under delegation from the Environment Minister). You can find out more by ...