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To improve environmental assets, environmental management and encourage sustainable farming

To support the development of a sustainable and efficient irrigation industry in Tasmania

To support research, trials and extension of ways that farmers and land managers can reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and increase storage of carbon in soil while maintaining farm productivity.

To protect the environment through prohibiting illegal logging. The regulation prescribes due diligence requirements for Australian importers and processors of regulated timber products to reduce the risk of illegally logged timber entering the Australian market. The Regulation requires that Australian importers and processors put in place a due diligence system; gather information before importing or processing a regulated timber product; identify and assess the risk that the regulated timber product(s) has been illegally logged; and mitigate the risk of importing illegally logged regulated timber products.

To increase the efficiency and sustainability of food and fibre production

To support sustainable rural management

The standard`s purpose is to provide consumer information, labelling; to protect the environment; to harmonize; and to save cost and enhance productivity.
1. Alignment of standards and regulation with international standards.
2. Contribute to Australia's plan to improve energy productivity by 40 per cent by 2030.
3. Contribute to Australia's target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 26 to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.

To ensure minimum environmental risk at every stage in the transportation and destruction of munitions

To protect the life and health of animals and plants and comply with the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

To phase-out inefficient incandescent lighting in order to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions