Victoria’s Climate Change Strategy.

Victoria’s Climate Change Strategy (2021) sets out Government's Plan to respond to climate change and the next steps aimed at reducing emissions while creating jobs, stimulating innovation and cutting costs for all Victorians. This instrument has been made to give effect to the requirements in Division 1 of Part 5 of the Climate Change Act 2017.
This Strategy brings together the actions from emissions reduction pledges (to help meet its targets, the Victorian Government has prepared emissions reduction pledges for each sector: Energy pledge; Agriculture pledge; Waste pledge; Land use, land use change and forestry pledge; Transport pledge; Industrial processes and product use pledge; Whole of Victorian Government pledge) and sets out Government's priorities to build resilience in future decades.
Strategy's five-point plan is: 1) A clean energy economy (Actions will support: transformation of the electricity system with renewable energy; building greener homes and buildings; expanding skills and jobs for Victorians). 2) Innovation for the future (Actions will support: technology trials, pilot schemes and other planning initiatives including decarbonizing gas use – including switching to electricity and developing the renewable hydrogen industry). 3) Resilient farms and forests (Actions will support: revitalizing and protecting lands and forests; researching and piloting new solutions for agriculture; farmers to take up new technologies and practices that reduce emissions). 4) Climate smart businesses and communities (Actions will support: energy efficiency and productivity for businesses; lower emissions from waste and the creation of a circular economy; community investment in renewable energy). 5) A climate resilient Victoria (Actions will support: protecting landscapes, communities and ecosystems, and by supporting jobs in emerging and changing industries).