Program · Outcome 2: Conserve, protect and sustainably manage our natural resources; protect and conserve our natural and cultural heritage; reduce and regulate the use of pollutants and hazardous substances; and take a leadership role on these issues internationally
Program 2.1: Conserve, protect, sustainably manage and restore Australia's natural environment
Aims to create circumstances in which nature – species and ecosystems – is being repaired and is regenerating.
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 70 reported
$785m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$57m (−6.8%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Special accounts | administered | $423m | $396m | −$26m −6.2% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 236 |
| Payments to corporate entities | administered | $234m | $233m | −$1.2m −0.5% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 237 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1 and Supply Bill No. 1) | administered | $185m | $156m | −$30m −16.0% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 235 |