NSW EPA Climate Change Policy And Action Plan Released – What You Need To Know

The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has published its Climate Change Policy and Action Plan 2023-2026 (Plan).

Over the next 12-24 months, under the Plan, the EPA will introduce a number of new requirements for industry participants to take action in response to climate change. Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Plans, industry-wide emission-reduction targets and emission limits on environment protection licences (EPL) are some of the proposed actions.

Snapshot

• Following the decision in Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action Incorporated v Environment Protection Authority [2021] NSWLEC 92 (2021) 250 LGERA 1, the EPA prepared the Plan, which puts a significant focus on climate change action across the industries and activities that the EPA regulates.