Portfolio: Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
http://www.nepc.gov.au/
Australian Energy Market Operator Digital Systems Enhancement Program
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Total Budget
$NFPM
Digital Budget
$NFPM
NFP — NFP
This project is to design, implement and operate a Digital Systems Enhancement Program.
ROBUST Transition Program
Bureau of Meteorology
Total Budget
$39.8M
Digital Budget
$39.8M
July 2024 — November 2025
The ROBUST Transition Program is the successor of the ROBUST Program that closed on 30 June 2024. The primary objective of the program is to deliver the residual scope from the ROBUST Program to enable the Bureau to realise the full outcomes and benefits from the ROBUST Program.
Capturing Australia’s Emissions Reduction Data – Additional Funding
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Total Budget
$20.4M
Digital Budget
$13.8M
August 2023 — June 2026
The aim of this project is to support and enhance core IT systems for the ongoing delivery of Australia’s National Greenhouse Accounts (historical and projected greenhouse gas emissions estimates) to fulfil legislative and international treaty reporting obligations, track progress against national emissions reduction targets, inform national and sectoral decarbonisation plans and 2035 target setting, and enable continued delivery of tools required for the Australian Carbon Credit Unit scheme.
Contract Market Monitoring
Australian Energy Regulator
Total Budget
$26M
Digital Budget
$7.8M
July 2024 — June 2026
The project aims to collect, store and analyse highly sensitive energy contracts data and provide insights into the performance of the wholesale electricity and gas markets, greater scrutiny of the conduct of the energy market participants, and broader understanding of the operation and impact of contract markets and overall resilience of the electricity and gas sectors.
Data and Digital Transformation
Australian Energy Regulator
Total Budget
$3.2M
Digital Budget
$2.1M
July 2024 — June 2026
The project will allow the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) to collect data from energy retail businesses efficiently, quickly and effectively, and conduct critical analysis to deliver stronger outcomes to energy consumers. Using improved data and digital systems, the AER will be able to provide richer and more timely insights into energy consumer outcomes, including levels of debt and the assistance retailers are providing in this time of significant cost-of-living pressures.
Establishing the National Environmental Protection Agency
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Total Budget
$121M
Digital Budget
$28.1M
July 2023 — June 2027
The aim of this project is to establish a new independent Commonwealth agency, the National Environmental Protection Agency, to enforce national environmental laws and restore confidence in Australia’s environmental protection system. The funding usage includes both operating costs and one-off transitional costs.
Improved greenhouse gas accounting at national and farm levels
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Total Budget
$20.9M
Digital Budget
$7.1M
August 2025 — July 2028
This project aims to improve greenhouse gas accounting in the agriculture and land sector at the national level through to farm level. The overall budget measure will deliver: • common standards for estimating and reporting agriculture and land sector emissions and removals on farm • improved National Greenhouse Accounts (NGA) methods that will ensure the NGA provides more robust national agriculture and land sector emissions and removals data. The digital and ICT measure, as part of the overall budget measure, facilitates accessibility of NGA data and calculations for users of different technical capability, including through a web mapping interface and Application Programming Interface.
Integrated Transformation and Sustainment Investment (ITSI) Program Tranche 1: Core technological modernisation, streamlined digital services and transparency
Clean Energy Regulator
Total Budget
$145M
Digital Budget
$63.4M
August 2021 — June 2028
The ITSI includes a range of individual initiatives that will deliver new business and technological capability to accelerate carbon abatement and improved biodiversity outcomes for Australia. From 2021, Program Tranche 1 began core technological modernisation, streamlined digital services and transparency.
Integrated Transformation and Sustainment Investment (ITSI) Program Tranche 2: Leverage modernised capabilities and investment value extension
Clean Energy Regulator
Total Budget
$159.4M
Digital Budget
$82.7M
August 2021 — June 2034
The ITSI includes a range of individual initiatives that will deliver new business and technological capability to accelerate carbon abatement and improved biodiversity outcomes for Australia. From 2023, Program Tranche 2 extends core technological capability, delivering new schemes and continuing to modernise existing scheme administration and transparency.
Water Market Reform - Strengthening Integrity and Transparency
Bureau of Meteorology
Total Budget
$32.7M
Digital Budget
$18.2M
December 2022 — June 2027
This project is restoring transparency, integrity and confidence to water markets through a new single digital platform for national water data management, a new water market website and water market data standards.
??Energy Model Enhancement (EME) Project
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Total Budget
$7.4M
Digital Budget
$6.1M
January 2025 — June 2027
This measure aims to improve energy planning and inform investment in energy networks and enabling infrastructure, including by developing new or improved energy forecasting models that enable more granular and integrated analysis of future energy demand.
Basin Plan Review Program (Basin Plan Review ICT and Data Project)
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
Total Budget
$103.7M
Digital Budget
$14.5M
July 2023 — June 2027
This project is implementing the Australian Government’s commitment to safeguard and future-proof the Murray-Darling Basin by preparing for, and undertaking in full, the statutory Basin Plan Review. Outcomes include enabling data and ICT required to support the review, making data and information publicly available and accessible to a range of audiences, and managing delivery of the work program.
Commonwealth Climate Risk and Opportunity Management Program
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Total Budget
$9.3M
Digital Budget
$4.4M
July 2022 — June 2024
To enhance climate risk management capabilities across the Commonwealth public sector, a new climate risk management guide and learning and development tools have been developed. To support this capability, the climate risk management digital tool was developed as a user-friendly digital tool that provides the necessary data, knowledge and guidance to Australian Public Service agencies to produce climate risk assessment reports.
Energy Made Easy (EME) Enhancements
Australian Energy Regulator
Total Budget
$16M
Digital Budget
$16M
July 2025 — June 2029
The AER holds 2 statutory obligations in relation to the EME website and the Consumer Data Right (Energy) initiative. The first obligation, under the National Energy Retail Law, requires the AER to provide an online energy price comparison service for Australian consumers. The second obligation, under the Competition and Consumer (Consumer Data Right) Amendment Rules 2021, requires the AER to make retail energy product data accessible through an online request service. This project aims to secure essential support for the delivery of services including the consumer-facing EME website, the industry-facing Retailer Portal, and Consumer Data Right online request service. Together, these services will ensure energy consumers have access to an independent and trusted service where they can compare energy offers and find the best prices, and that retailer energy data can be collected and shared to promote data transparency and foster innovation.
Environment Information Australia
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Total Budget
$51M
Digital Budget
$6M
July 2023 — June 2025
Environment Information Australia (EIA) has been established to provide accessible, interoperable and high-quality environmental data and information. The investment supports EIA to deliver environmental information, analytics and tools to support the department and government to undertake their regulatory and policy responsibilities and give business and the public easier access to environmental data and information.
Inspector-General of Water Compliance (IGWC) ICT Enabling Systems
Inspector-General of Water Compliance
Total Budget
$1.3M
Digital Budget
$1.3M
October 2024 — June 2025
The Digital and Data Strategy will guide the IGWC’s investment into ICT and data needs, to support water compliance and oversight functions for the Murray-Darling Basin. The strategy will be implemented in phases, with the initial phase prioritising IGWC system identity and access security, and development of governance arrangements for data and information management. Strategy progress and currency will be regularly reviewed to adapt to any new regulatory or information and data needs and ICT options.
National Climate Adaptation and Risk Program
Bureau of Meteorology
Total Budget
$22.9M
Digital Budget
$0.2M
November 2023 — June 2025
The National Climate Risk Assessment identified and analysed nationally significant climate-related risks for Australia, for action by the National Adaptation Plan. These are risks with pervasive and prolonged consequences that require a national, coordinated response.
Online Data Collection and Reporting Mechanism for the Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) Market
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Total Budget
$4.6M
Digital Budget
$4.6M
October 2022 — June 2026
The purpose of the market transparency measure for the DEF sector is to establish a data collection and reporting framework for the DEF market to increase transparency and assist in avoiding future supply shortages.
Sustaining Environmental Assessments
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Total Budget
$2.5M
Digital Budget
$2.5M
July 2022 — June 2025
The Sustaining Environmental Assessments measure provided funds to extend this workflow system to include a searchable public register of Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 offsets (the National Environmental Offset System) and for integration with the compliance investigations ICT system. This work included design of functional interfaces with the systems being developed for compliance purposes and risk ratings, so these systems can operate in the future as modules of a more comprehensive approach to managing information relevant to the protection of the environment.
Waste Exports Licencing and Declaration (WELD)
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Total Budget
$0.7M
Digital Budget
$0.7M
November 2024 — June 2025
This project involved enhancements to the WELD business system to reflect new legislation for waste exports under the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020 and associated Rules, including the introduction of paper and cardboard as a new regulated waste stream in 2024.
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Reform proposals on YourGov that name this department as a delivery partner — drawn from citizen voice, government strategy, research, international examples and gap analysis.
STRATEGY SUMMARY
The objects of the NEPC Act are to ensure that, through the establishment and operation of the Council: • people enjoy the benefit of equivalent protection from air, water or soil pollution and from noise, wherever they live in Australia • decisions of the business community are not distorted, and markets are not fragmented, by variations between participating jurisdictions in relation to the adoption or implementation of major environment protection measures.
PURPOSE
The objects of the NEPC Act are to ensure that, through the establishment and operation of the Council: • people enjoy the benefit of equivalent protection from air, water or soil pollution and from noise, wherever they live in Australia • decisions of the business community are not distorted, and markets are not fragmented, by variations between participating jurisdictions in relation to the adoption or implementation of major environment protection measures.
Outcomes
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Outcome 1: Air Toxics
The desired environmental outcome of the National Environment Protection (Air Toxics) Measure is to facilitate management of air toxics in ambient air that will allow for the equivalent protection of human health and well-being, by: 1. providing for the generation of comparable, reliable information on the levels of toxic air pollutants (‘air toxics’) at sites where significantly elevated concentrations of one or more of these air toxics are likely to occur (‘Stage 1 sites’) and where the potential for significant population exposure to air toxics exists (‘Stage 2 sites’). 2. establishing a consistent approach to the identification of such sites for use by jurisdictions. 3. establishing a consistent frame of reference (‘monitoring investigation levels’) for use by jurisdictions in assessing the likely significance of levels of air toxics measured at Stage 2 sites. 4. adopting a nationally consistent approach to monitoring air toxics at a range of locations (e.g. near major industrial sites, major roads, areas affected by wood smoke).
KEY ACTIVITIES
Outcome 2: Ambient Air Quality
The desired environmental outcome of the National Environment Protection (Ambient Air Quality) Measure is ambient air quality that allows for the adequate protection of human health and well–being.
KEY ACTIVITIES
Outcome 3: Assessment of Site Contamination
The desired environmental outcome of the National Environment Protection (Assessment of Site Contamination) Measure is to provide adequate protection of human health and the environment, where site contamination has occurred, through the development of an efficient and effective national approach to the assessment of site contamination.
KEY ACTIVITIES
Outcome 4: Diesel Vehicle Emissions
The desired environmental outcome of the National Environment Protection (Diesel Vehicle Emissions) Measure is to reduce pollution from in-service diesel vehicles.
KEY ACTIVITIES
Outcome 5: Movement of Controlled Waste between States and Territories
The desired environmental outcome for the National Environment Protection (Movement of Controlled Waste between States and Territories) Measure is to minimise the potential for adverse impacts associated with the movement of controlled waste on the environment and human health.
KEY ACTIVITIES
Outcome 6: Used Packaging Materials
The main purpose of the Used Packaging Materials NEPM is to establish a statutory basis for ensuring that brand owners that have signed up to the Australian Packaging Covenant are not competitively disadvantaged in fulfilling their commitments under the Covenant by non-signatories.
KEY ACTIVITIES
Values
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equivalent protection
non-distorted markets
Source documents
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2018-19
NEPC Annual Report 2018-19 (PDF 3.6MB)
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2017-18
NEPC Annual Report 2017-18 (PDF 3.6MB)
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2016-17
NEPC Annual Report 2016-17 (PDF 3.2MB)
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2015-16
NEPC Annual Report 2015-16 (PDF 2.4MB)
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2014-15
NEPC Annual Report 2014-15 (PDF 2.6MB)
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2022
NChEM Chemicals Action Plan for the Environment - 2nd Progress Report 1 July 2008 - 30 June 2010 (PDF 150KB)
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2022
NChEM Chemicals Action Plan for the Environment - First Progress Report November 2008 (PDF 100.3KB)
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Ideas distilled from this entity's strategy & evidence
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KPI evidence register with named owners
Create a simple register mapping each KPI to source data, owner, frequency, target, and last result.
nepc-annual-report-2018-19.pdf)
Outcome dashboard linking budget, delivery, and public impact
Build a public-facing outcome dashboard showing spend, outputs, outcomes, and delivery confidence.
nepc-annual-report-2018-19.pdf)
Regulatory burden scan for forms, guidance, and reporting
Identify the top 10 highest-friction reporting obligations and simplify guidance, forms, or evidence requirements.
nepc-annual-report-2014-15.pdf)
Adaptive regulation program with live feedback loops
Create an adaptive regulation model using sandboxes, industry data, risk scoring, and regular rule updates.
nepc-annual-report-2014-15.pdf)
Recommendation tracker for audits, reviews, and inquiries
Publish a single internal tracker for audit/review recommendations, owners, due dates, and implementation evidence.
nepc-annual-report-2015-16.pdf)
Integrated assurance and lessons-learned system
Create an assurance system that connects audit findings, risk registers, delivery reviews, and investment decisions.
nepc-annual-report-2015-16.pdf)
Triage queue for stuck or ageing cases
Use existing case data to flag ageing, duplicate, incomplete, or high-risk cases for earlier intervention.
nepc-annual-report-2014-15.pdf)
End-to-end case processing redesign
Redesign the case pathway around risk-based triage, reusable evidence, and automated eligibility checks.
nepc-annual-report-2014-15.pdf)
Reusable briefing and summary assistant for internal documents
Create controlled templates for summarising reports, submissions, minutes, and ministerial briefs.
nepc-annual-report-2015-16.pdf)
Department-wide knowledge and briefing platform
Build a secure knowledge platform that lets staff search, summarise, and cite approved departmental material.
nepc-annual-report-2015-16.pdf)
Consultation feedback summaries with response tracking
Summarise consultation submissions by theme and publish what changed in response.
nepc-annual-report-2017-18.pdf)
Always-on policy participation platform
Create a standing participation platform where citizens and stakeholders can propose, vote, and track ideas.
nepc-annual-report-2017-18.pdf)
KPI evidence register with named owners
Create a simple register mapping each KPI to source data, owner, frequency, target, and last result.
nepc-annual-report-2018-19.pdf)
Outcome dashboard linking budget, delivery, and public impact
Build a public-facing outcome dashboard showing spend, outputs, outcomes, and delivery confidence.
nepc-annual-report-2018-19.pdf)
Regulatory burden scan for forms, guidance, and reporting
Identify the top 10 highest-friction reporting obligations and simplify guidance, forms, or evidence requirements.
nepc-annual-report-2014-15.pdf)
Adaptive regulation program with live feedback loops
Create an adaptive regulation model using sandboxes, industry data, risk scoring, and regular rule updates.
nepc-annual-report-2014-15.pdf)
Recommendation tracker for audits, reviews, and inquiries
Publish a single internal tracker for audit/review recommendations, owners, due dates, and implementation evidence.
nepc-annual-report-2015-16.pdf)
Integrated assurance and lessons-learned system
Create an assurance system that connects audit findings, risk registers, delivery reviews, and investment decisions.
nepc-annual-report-2015-16.pdf)
Triage queue for stuck or ageing cases
Use existing case data to flag ageing, duplicate, incomplete, or high-risk cases for earlier intervention.
nepc-annual-report-2014-15.pdf)
End-to-end case processing redesign
Redesign the case pathway around risk-based triage, reusable evidence, and automated eligibility checks.
nepc-annual-report-2014-15.pdf)
Reusable briefing and summary assistant for internal documents
Create controlled templates for summarising reports, submissions, minutes, and ministerial briefs.
nepc-annual-report-2015-16.pdf)
Department-wide knowledge and briefing platform
Build a secure knowledge platform that lets staff search, summarise, and cite approved departmental material.
nepc-annual-report-2015-16.pdf)
Consultation feedback summaries with response tracking
Summarise consultation submissions by theme and publish what changed in response.
nepc-annual-report-2017-18.pdf)
Always-on policy participation platform
Create a standing participation platform where citizens and stakeholders can propose, vote, and track ideas.
nepc-annual-report-2017-18.pdf)
Source library
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3.8MB
2018-19.pdf
3.8MB
2017-18.pdf
3.3MB
2016-17.pdf
2.6MB
2015-16.pdf
2.7MB
2014-15.pdf
270KB
corrected-table-nsw-ambient-air-quality-nepm-report.pdf
215KB
corrected-table-south-australian-upm-nepm-report.pdf
213KB
corrected-table-west-australian-upm-nepm-report.pdf
261KB
corrected-table-tasmanian-upm-nepm-report.pdf
154KB
cmgt-nchem-second-progress-report-jul10.pdf
103KB
cmgt-nchem-first-progress-report-nov08.pdf
Bodies within the Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water portfolio
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Corporate Commonwealth Entity
Sydney Harbour Federation Trust
Corporate Commonwealth Entity
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Non-corporate Commonwealth Entity
Director of National Parks
Corporate Commonwealth Entity
Climate Change Authority
Non-corporate Commonwealth Entity
Clean Energy Regulator
Non-corporate Commonwealth Entity
Clean Energy Finance Corporation
Corporate Commonwealth Entity
Bureau of Meteorology
Non-corporate Commonwealth Entity
Australian Renewable Energy Agency
Corporate Commonwealth Entity
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
Corporate Commonwealth Entity
Snowy Hydro Ltd
Commonwealth Company
National Wildlife Corridors Committee
Statutory Body