Divisions
- Climate Change Priorities
- Climate change: key facts and figures
- What you can do
- Calendar of events
- Tasmania's Climate Change Action Plan 2017–2021
- Developing a new climate change action plan for Tasmania
- Newsletter
Contact Details
By phone
Find the number of a specific division or office to contact them directly or call Service Tasmania on 1300 135 513.
Our staff
Use the Tasmanian Government Directory to find staff contact details
Social media
Follow our social media accounts to keep up to date with specific programs and initiatives.
Key opportunities for Tasmania
Key opportunities for Tasmania to reduce emissions and adapt to a changing climate.
Adaptation opportunities
Action to manage the risks of climate change impacts:
- Provide up-to-date information to support decision making across all sectors
- Adaptation planning (industries)
- Up-to-date climate projections
- Support community action
- Preparedness and Planning Emergency management
- Decision support tools
- Build community resilience
- Planning system
Mitigation opportunities
- Renewable energy
- Energy efficiency and demand reduction (industry, business and households)
- Electrification (commercial, industrial and domestic)
- Battery storage
- Electrify domestic heating, cooking and hot water services
- Electric vehicle uptake
- Public and active transport options
- Technology
- Reduce organic waste to landfill
- Agroforestry
- Precision and regenerative farming practices
- Use of alternative building products (eg wood)
- Trial new feedstock types to reduce emissions
- Reduce conversion of forests and plantation estate
- Renewable hydrogen
Opportunities for both
- Education
- Funding
- Research
- Leverage Tasmania’s low emissions status
- Information
- Knowledge sharing
- Urban greening
- Invest in new technology (eg biomass and liquid biofuels)
- Invest in a low carbon economy
- Health and wellbeing
- Support and innovation