The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning have launched Victoria’s Climate Change Strategy, which provides a roadmap to net-zero emissions and a climate resilient Victoria by 2050.
Along the path to net zero, the Government has set targets to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by 28–33% by 2025 and 45–50% by 2030.
The Strategy outlines a five-point plan to securing Victoria’s net zero emission future, which include the following commitments relating to the built environment:
- A clean energy economy
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- $1.6B clean energy package
- $1.3B Solar Homes program for 778,500 households
- $797M household energy efficiency package
- $5.3B to construct more than 12,000 low-cost homes, all of which will meet 7-Star energy efficiency standards
- $335M Home Heating and Cooling Upgrades program
- Additional $60M to the Greener Government Buildings Program
- $40M in energy efficiency upgrades for public health facilities
- $10M Clean Economy initiatives to upskill and support workers to take on clean energy jobs
- Innovation for the Future
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- Commitment to reduce energy costs and emissions by shifting from gas to electricity – A Gas Substitution Roadmap is being developed in consultation with stakeholders over 2021
- $100M to support the uptake of zero emissions vehicles
- Resilient farms and forests
- Climate smart businesses and communities
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- Expanding the Victorian Energy Upgrades program to support small and medium enterprise adopt energy efficiency upgrades
- $515 to deliver reform and transformation of the state’s waste and recycling system
- $9.2M Solar on Public Buildings program
- ResourceSmart Schools program
- over $18B to expand and modernise the state’s public transport system
- A climate resilient Victoria
More information here