Submission in response to Draft Emissions Reduction and Resilience Plans (lutruwita/Tasmania)

Environmental Defenders Office welcomes the opportunity to provide the following brief submission in response to the draft Tasmanian Emissions Reduction and Resilience Plans (ERRPs) for Energy, Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF),  Industrial Processes and Product Use (IPPU), and Agriculture sectors. ERRPs developed under the Climate Change (State Action) Act 2008 (Tas) (the Act) are a pragmatic mechanism to propel greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions and climate change adaptation across all sections of the economy. EDO maintains that to achieve lutruwita/Tasmania’s legislated net zero (or lower) GHG emission target (net zero target), it is critical the ERRPs have clear sector-based GHG emissions reduction targets, ambitious timeframes for steps associated with each of the “future opportunities” identified, and that the plans are actively and urgently implemented to ensure significant advances along the decarbonisation pathway are not delayed.