Chrome test. Learn how the NSW Government is responding to climate change in the context of Australian and international action and how we are strengthening our approaches.
Our role
We have a critical role in protecting the environment from the threat of climate change, and in supporting the community to meet the NSW Government’s Net Zero commitments.
See our climate change policy and action plan.
The build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial age is causing our climate to change with potentially serious consequences. These changes are now being acutely felt. Learn more about the climate change threat.
Combatting climate change requires a coordinated, multi-level government and agency response. The primary architecture governing this effort internationally is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. Australia is a party to both.