Regional Natural Resource Management Planning for Climate Change Fund
Regional Natural Resource Management (NRM) organisations will be supported to update existing regional NRM plans to guide planning for climate change impacts on the land and to maximise the environmental benefits of carbon farming projects.
Around $44m over five years will be utilised for this fund. The fund will help to guide where biosequestration projects should be located in the landscape to maximise the benefits for biodiversity, water and agricultural production.
The fund is divided into two streams:
- Stream 1 will provide $28.9m over five years to support the 56 regional NRM organisations revise existing regional NRM plans to help identify where in the landscape adaptation and mitigation activities should be undertaken. This stream will be administered by the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.
Stream 1 of the Regional Natural Resource Management (NRM) Planning for Climate Change Fund will provide assistance to regional NRM organisations to incorporate climate change mitigation and adaptation into existing regional NRM plans.
The Fund will commence in 2012/13 and will be available to the 56 regional NRM organisations across Australia. - Stream 2 will provide $15m over five years to support development of regional-level information in the form of scenarios about the impacts of climate change (water, temperature, storms) which can be used for medium term regional NRM land use planning. This stream will be administered by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency.
For more information, contact us on nrmplanning@environment.gov.au
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