Tasmania Climate Action

Tasmania Climate Action

The need for aggressive climate action is clear and compelling. While confronting, this is a challenge that we must embrace with a sense of hope rather than despair. Tasmania, with its negative emissions profile and renewable energy assets, can be an example to the world on climate action, but much more does need to be done.

Tasmania has an impressive record on climate action� In 2015, we were the first Australian jurisdiction to achieve net zero emissions and we have achieved this commitment four years in a row.

The latest figures show we have the lowest emissions per person in the country.

Our State is now 100 per cent self- sufficient in renewable energy and continues to lead Australia’s transition to a low emissions economy. This includes a commitment to generate 200 per cent of our energy needs from renewable energy by 2040, and fast-tracking a renewable hydrogen industry in Tasmania.

Tasmania is also fortunate to have world-class climate science capability and detailed climate change projections to inform our decisions.
Despite our strong advantages, Tasmania is not immune to the impacts of a changing climate. In the past five years we have seen extreme flooding, fires, drought, biosecurity concerns and marine heatwaves� These events have had an environmental, economic and social impact on government, business, communities and households.