Program · Outcome 1: Maintain a secure, reliable and affordable energy system; support the transition of Australia’s economy to net-zero emissions by 2050; support actions to promote adaptation and strengthen resilience of Australia’s economy, society and environment; and take a leadership role internationally in responding to climate change
Program 1.2: Reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions
Aims to shape the global response to climate change and ensure we achieve our emissions reduction targets of 43% by 2030 and support net zero by 2050.
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 53 reported
+$236m (+110.1%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1 and Supply Bill No. 1) | administered | $209m | $447m | +$239m +114.4% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 228 |
| Special appropriations | administered | $4.3m | $1.3m | −$3.1m −70.8% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 229 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | administered | $959k | $975k | +$16k +1.7% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 230 |