Full list of initiatives
Messages, Background and Introduction
Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change
Maintaining and Restoring Our Natural Assets
Using Our Resources More Efficiently
Reducing Our Everyday Environmental Impacts
Government Leadership
Next Steps
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Messages, Background and Introduction
Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change |
- 1.1 Victorian renewable energy target
- 1.2 Support for Renewable Energy
- 1.3 Support for National Emissions Trading
- 1.4 Greenhouse reporting
- 1.5 Cleaner coal
- 1.6 Improving existing generators
- 1.7 Green communities
Action 2: improving our energy efficiency
- 2.1 Help for large resource users
- 2.2 Smart metering
- 2.3 Smarter energy pricing
- 2.4 Greener appliances
- 2.5 Energy smart business
- 2.6 Better billing
- 2.7 Growing the energy efficiency industry
- 2.8 Cities for climate protection
Action 3: adapting to the impacts of climate change
- 3.1 Adapting for Victoria’s future
- 3.2 Research centre for climate change adaption
- 3.3 Local action
- 3.4 Human health and climate change
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Maintaining and Restoring Our Natural Assets |
- 4.1 Market solutions
- 4.2 Extending BushTender
- 4.3 Environmental accounting
- 4.4 Landcare
- 4.5 Healthy soil
Action 5: healthy and productive water systems
- 5.1 Gippsland Lakes
- 5.2 Heritage Rivers
- 5.3 Yarra hot spots
- 5.4 Improving Victoria’s rivers
- 5.5 New sustainable wetlands strategy
Action 6: healthy marine and coastal areas
- 6.1 Protecting our coastline
- 6.2 Fisheries support
Action 7: flourishing biodiversity in healthy ecosystems
- 7.1 Land health and biodiversity white paper
- 7.2 Native Vegetation Trust
- 7.3 Foxes and rabbits
Action 8: clean air
- 8.1 Air quality monitoring stations
- 8.2 Reducing exhaust emissions
- 8.3 New national fuel standards
- 8.4 Sustainable heating
Action 9: comprehensive network of parks
- 9.1 Better Parks
- 9.2 Recreational Forests
- 9.3 Parks for neighbourhood renewal communities
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Using Our Resources More Efficiently |
- 10.1 Banning plastic bags
- 10.2 Take-back and recycling centres
- 10.3 Sustainable production and consumption taskforce
- 10.4 National packaging covenant
- 10.5 Litter strategy
- 10.6 Hazardous waste
- 10.7 Support smart business
- 10.8 Lifecycle management in business and industry
- 10.9 Environmental code of practise for manufacturing
- 10.10 Trade waste
- 10.11 Detergents
Action 11: sustainable forests
- 11.1 Further protection of forests
- 11.2 Sustainable forestry
- 11.3 Tourism development framework
Action 12: increased water, energy and materials efficiency
- 12.1 Recognising business leaders
- 12.2 Recognising sustainable products
- 12.3 Sustainability in SMEs
- 12.4 Eco-innovation hub
- 12.5 Science and technology for environmental sustainability
- 12.6 Enhanced sustainability in new investment
- 12.7 Responding to community expectations of mining
- 12.8 Reducing emissions from the agriculture sector
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Reducing Our Everyday Environmental Impacts |
- 13.1 Learning to live sustainably
- 13.2 Energy efficiency and sustainability campaign
- 13.3 Right advice at the right place
- 13.4 Eco-living
- 13.5 It’s easy being green
- 13.6 Rebates for being green
- 13.7 GreenHomes
- 13.8 Sustainability fund grants
- 13.9 Training for tradies
- 13.10 Maintaining the Advantage – Skills Statement
- 13.11 Sustainable schools
Action 14: liveable cities and towns
- 14.1 Melbourne 2030
- 14.2 Transit cities
- 14.3 Cutting environmental red tape
- 14.4 Better buildings
- 14.5 Supporting new suburbs
- 14.6 Victorian Local Sustainability Accord
- 14.7 Regional sustainability
- 14.8 Werribee plains
Action 15: sustainable and efficient transport systems
- 15.1 More transport choice
- 15.2 Alternative fuels
- 15.3 Hybrid bus trial
- 15.4 Greening our automotive industry
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Government Leadership |
- 16.1 Expansion of the environmental management system (EMS)
- 16.2 Sustainable Government decision-making
- 16.3 Sustainable procurement
- 16.4 Greening our hospitals
- 16.5 Water authorities obligations
- 16.6 Greening our schools
- 16.7 Greening our car fleet
- 16.8 Green offices, major projects
- 16.9 Water efficiency in public housing
- 16.10 Neighbourhood Renewal
- 16.11 Resource efficiency
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