Australia is a global leader in the export of fossil fuels and livestock agriculture, so it’s important we shift domestic energy policies, energy creation and food supply towards cleaner solutions - while ensuring this process is equitable and empowering for all. We also need to ensure emissions from other important sectors, like transport, buildings and food are rapidly reduced.

Currently, our key funding priorities include:

• Supporting the adoption of new forms of energy production (renewables)
• Supporting the prevention of new fossil fuel projects
• Supporting the development of alternative proteins markets (plant-based meat and cellular agriculture), to reduce deforestation pressures, carbon emissions and animal suffering.

Temperate and tropical forests (green carbon) and seagrass meadows, tidal marshes and mangrove forests (blue carbon) sequester large amounts of atmospheric carbon. They also provide vast biodiversity benefits for the planet, supporting most ecosystems that underpin life on earth. We’re funding initiatives to protect and restore these important areas, helping them recuperate form and function to absorb and store more carbon over time.

Currently, our key funding priorities are:

• Protecting and restoring temperate and tropical forests (and the biodiversity they support)
• Protecting and restoring oceans (and the biodiversity they support)

Securing gender equality and advancing women’s wellbeing is one of the leading solutions to addressing climate change. When levels of education rise, access to reproductive health care improves and women’s political, social and economic empowerment expand, women can control their family size and their lives, curbing population growth and building healthier more inclusive societies.

That’s why we commit our funding to women’s education, health and economic empowerment.