Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281:schedule:1aa:p26
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1AA (pt 26/29)
Character Range: 139220–144687

resources, including through programs to build resilience in marine, aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
425.002                                                                               Environmental Information and Research
                                                                                      Objectives: To improve Australia's capacity to deliver and disseminate environmental research and information, enhancing capabilities in taxonomy and species discovery, and to pursue a permanent end to all forms of commercial and so‑called 'scientific' whaling
425.003                                                                               Carbon Pollution Reduction—Land Sector Initiatives
                                                                                      Objectives: To improve the resilience of Australia's landscape to climate change, enhance the environmental outcomes of Carbon Farming Initiative projects, and assist landholders to protect carbon and biodiversity values of their land
425.004                                                                               Management of Hazardous Wastes, Substances and Pollutants
                                                                                      Objective: To maintain and improve the quality of the environment, to reduce waste and pollution and to increase resource recovery, including through national frameworks, standards, regulation, management and monitoring of wastes, hazardous substances, air pollutants, ozone‑depleting substances and synthetic greenhouse gases
425.005                                                                               Sustainable Communities—Suburban Jobs
                                                                                      Objective: To assist State and local governments to plan for and provide enduring employment opportunities in the growing outer suburbs of our major capital cities
425.006                                                                               Antarctica: Science, Policy and Presence
                                                                                      Objective: To advance Australia's strategic, scientific, environmental and economic interests in the Antarctic through the Australian Antarctic Science Grants program
425.007                                                                               Water Reform
                                                                                      Objectives: To support government and non‑government partners to promote adaptation to climate change, wise water use, secure water supplies, and to improve the health of rivers, waterways and freshwater ecosystems, and to support Australian expertise
425.008                                                                               Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure Program
                                                                                      Objectives: To provide funding for rural water infrastructure, management and efficiency, to develop a transparent water market, to improve broader wetlands, river and freshwater ecosystems' health outcomes and to improve knowledge of river systems
425.009                                                                               Water Smart Australia
                                                                                      Objectives: To accelerate the development and uptake of smart technologies and practices in water use across Australia and to advance the implementation of the National Water Initiative
425.010                                                                               National Urban Water and Desalination Plan
                                                                                      Objective: To provide funding for desalination, water recycling and stormwater harvesting projects in Australian cities
425.011                                                                               National Water Security Plan for Cities and Towns
                                                                                      Objective: To provide funding for practical projects that save water and reduce water losses in cities and towns with populations of less than 50,000
425.012                                                                               Commonwealth Contribution under the Murray Darling Basin Agreement
                                                                                      Objective: To deliver governance and operational reforms for the integrated management of water resources in the Murray‑Darling Basin
425.013                                                                               Restoring the Balance in the Basin
                                                                                      Objectives: To purchase water entitlements for environmental use and to undertake other measures to ensure that diversions from the Murray‑Darling Basin are environmentally sustainable
425.014                                                                               Science‑Based Framework for Coal Seam Gas and Coal Mining Impacts on Water
                                                                                      Objectives: To improve community confidence in decision making of the impacts of coal seam gas and coal mining