Summary of proposal
Party
Australian Greens
Portfolio
Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Policy Topic
Environment
The proposal would encourage state and territory governments to improve carbon accounting, end native forest logging, invest in ecosystem restoration, and provide funding for worker transitions.
The proposal would start from 1 July 2026 and contain multiple components, as set out below:
- component 1: provide $5 million over 4 years to make emissions accounting transparent by improving carbon accounting and reporting. Funding would be evenly distributed over 4 years.
- component 2: provide $10 billion over 20 years in payments to state and territory governments. These payments would be used to develop, implement, and support integrated ecological and economic development plans that enable forest management, ecological restoration, fire prevention and response, and economic transitions for affected workers, including by creating new employment opportunities in ecosystem restoration.
Funding would be evenly distributed over 20 years and have minimum annual payments of:
– $140.4 million for New South Wales
– $43.9 million for Victoria
– $58.4 million for Western Australia
– $198.8 million for Tasmania
– $58.8 million for Queensland. - component 3: repeal the Regional Forest Agreements and ending the logging industry’s exemption from national environmental laws.