Infrastructure WA

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Replace the current system of acquiring environmental offsets separately for major projects with a coordinated bioregional approach ...
Develop and implement a shared environmental and heritage information system for priority locations
Implement methods of accountability and coordination across state agencies and GTEs
Implement a statewide approach to climate change adaptation for existing infrastructure
Strengthen and expand WA Climate Policy programs to develop carbon farming and sequestration markets

Climate change and sustainability

With around 70% of Australia’s emissions associated with infrastructure-based projects, infrastructure has a very large role to play in meeting the net zero emissions by 2050 target.

Essential infrastructure in sectors such as housing, transport, energy and water is potentially at risk from sea-level rise, coastal inundation, intensifying weather events and bushfires. 

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