Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Are you interested in data? If so, we’ve got good news! You can now see some key Australian marine data together in one handy spot: Geoscience Australia’s Australian Marine Spatial Information System (AMSIS). The data layers in AMSIS include: 🐬Biologically Important Areas for Protected Marine Species 🌿Key Ecological Features 🐙Australian Marine Parks 🌏Australia’s marine jurisdiction boundaries. AMSIS is a digital geospatial platform for accessing and visualising official marine information. It’s designed to support effective marine planning and management. It helps users understand and manage interactions between activities and environmental values. The platform also contains data on: 🌊 marine and coastal infrastructure 🌊 energy resources 🌊 Native Title 🌊 shipping 🌊 physical geography. Dive in and explore AMSIS: https://brnw.ch/21wLay7 📷 Geoscience Australia #Marine #MarineMonday #DCCEEW #Ocean #Data #MarineData

🚘⚡Get ready for your #EVroadtrip: 🔋 charge up for the journey 🌏 plan to recharge yourself & your EV 🌱 embrace the future of sustainable travel. Follow along for travel tips & the thrill of the electric ride! #EVadventure 🔗 https://brnw.ch/21wLari

We’re working with Metro Finance to provide discounted loans to help Australia’s small to medium sized businesses take up #cleanenergy technologies, including #EVs to better control energy use to lower costs and reduce their carbon footprints.   https://lnkd.in/g-gFhuNW

The Energy Bill Relief Fund is being extended and expanded to provide bill relief to more consumers. From 1 July 2024, all Australian households and eligible small businesses will receive a rebate on their electricity bills. Go to 👉 https://lnkd.in/gT4MJTHf

In the #MurrayDarling, dry land farming contributes significantly to the $30 billion agriculture industry. Unlike irrigated agriculture, dry land farming relies on natural soil moisture and rain to grow crops like wheat, barley and oats. Discover more about dry land farming and read other stories https://brnw.ch/21wL7b0 #MurrayDarlingRivers 🚜

We’re looking for First Nations water experts to fill vacancies on the Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Water Interests. CAWI is Australia’s primary independent advisor to governments on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ inland water rights and interests. If you are dedicated to shaping national inland water reform to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ rights and interests we want to hear from you. 📢#CAWI EOI closing date extended to 21 July 2024. 🔜Reminder: join our online info session and Q&A about working on CAWI, 2pm AEST, Friday 5 July. Register for our info session and apply to join CAWI: https://brnw.ch/21wL5Mj

The Capacity Investment Scheme Tender 2 – WEM Dispatchable Capacity is opening soon.

🥛 Did you know? One out of every five litres of milk we buy from the supermarket relies on water from the #MurrayDarlingRivers. The #MurrayDarling produces about 1.5 billion litres of milk a year, generating a farmgate value of $1.14 billion in 2022-23. Learn more about the vital connection between water, agriculture, and food production at https://brnw.ch/21wL3px

Feeling a bit *at sea* this #MarineMonday? Don’t worry – together with our regional neighbours, we’ve got the sea sorted! Last week Australia hosted its first meeting for senior officials from the Arafura and Timor Seas Ecosystem Action Programme – aka *ATSEA*. ATSEA is a long-standing partnership: 🌏 between Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and Australia 🌊 for cooperation across boundaries on the marine values and threats in the seas to Australia’s north. At last week’s meeting, officials explored options to: 🗑️ reduce marine and coastal plastic pollution 🛢️ prevent and respond to oil spills 🎣 tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in transboundary areas 🐳 increase resilience of endangered, threatened and protected species and important habitats. We also had a chance to: 🐢 showcase some of our work on protecting marine species from plastic and light pollution 👩🔬 visit the ARC Training Centre for Bioplastics and Biocomposites at The University of Queensland and see its marine plastic pollution research. We share one global ocean. Working in partnership with our neighbours helps us ensure a sustainable, nature positive ocean future for Australia and the world. Find out more about our work through ATSEA and other international partnerships: https://brnw.ch/21wL3ms #Marine #MarineMonday #DCCEEW #OneOcean #GlobalOcean

The #MurrayDarlingRivers are unique and continue to face pressures from increased water use, droughts and man-made changes to how the rivers flow. Iconic Aussie species and millions of people rely on the #MurrayDarling. 💧🌿 Learn about our plan to restore the #MurrayDarling at murraydarling.gov.au