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    Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry

    Emissions Reduction and Resilience Plan for Tasmania's land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector

    The first legislated LULUCF Emissions Reduction and Resilience Plan has been released.

    The Plan was prepared after both public and targeted consultation. You can read the submissions on the draft Plan

    The Plan also includes a summary of the key themes from consultation, and how the Plan addresses these key themes.

    Focus areas

    The five focus areas of the Plan to reduce emissions and build resilience in the LULUCF sector are:

    1. We will improve the data, information and knowledge needed to drive change.
    2. We will support practices and technologies that will reduce emissions and increase carbon storage.
    3. We will support the sector in the transition to a lower emissions economy.
    4. We will build resilience to the impacts of climate change.
    5. We will drive action through partnerships and collaboration.

    Under each focus area there are new sector-specific and cross-sectoral commitments, future funding priorities, and initiatives that already exist or are in‑progress.

    Reducing emissions and building resilience in the LULUCF sector

    • Work with local government, regional development authorities and other institutions to plant climate tolerant trees in urban environments that can increase carbon storage and build resilience during high temperatures.
    • Work with key partners to develop resources to increase understanding for landowners to participate in carbon and other emerging environmental markets.
    • Undertake a gap analysis and audit of Tasmania’s seed bank capacity to support research into seed sourcing to improve the resilience of our native forests and plantations under the changing climate.
    • Work with the Australian Government to improve the transparency of LULUCF emissions reporting, for example in relation to native forest harvesting and bushfires.

    The LULUCF Plan also includes future funding priorities to guide action over the next five years.

    We have developed Tasmania’s Emissions Reduction and Resilience Roadmap 2024-29 to show the links between all sectoral plans and Tasmania’s first statewide climate change risk assessment

    There are common challenges and opportunities for all sectors. As part of the Roadmap we will introduce four key programs to support business and industry in all sectors to reduce emissions, build resilience and stay competitive in the transition to low emissions.

    See Tasmania’s Emissions Reduction and Resilience Roadmap 2024-29 for more information.

    Climate change and the LULUCF sector in Tasmania

    The LULUCF sector includes greenhouse gas emissions from activities such as land clearing, harvesting of native forests and plantations, bushfires, and planned burns.

    The LULUCF sector also includes carbon sequestered or stored in new and regenerating forests and plantations, and harvested wood products.

    The LULUCF sector has been a net carbon sink for over a decade, and offsets the emissions from all other sectors.

    Emissions from the sector have decreased significantly since 1990. The decrease has largely been driven by reductions in native forest harvesting on private land, lower rates of clearing and conversion of forested lands to other land uses, and increases in carbon sequestration from post-harvesting regeneration of forests, hardwood and softwood plantations, environmental plantings and regrowth of previously cleared lands.

    Find out more about Tasmania’s greenhouse gas emissions from LULUCF and other sectors in our annual greenhouse gas report.

    Climate change brings considerable risks and challenges to landowners and forest managers. Tasmania’s managed forest estate is a significant carbon sink that currently offsets the emissions from all other sectors. The ability of Tasmania’s forests and plantations to continue to sequester carbon at current rates will change under the changing climate.

    There are also risks for land and forest managers and agri-businesses associated with the transition to a lower emissions economy, such as regulatory changes for accounting and financial risk reporting. However, the transition also brings opportunities for the sector associated with increased demand for low emissions timber products and participation in carbon and environmental markets.

    Find out more about the Tasmanian Government’s action to build resilience to the impacts of climate change in our response to Tasmania’s Risk Assessment for Climate Change 2024.

    Stay up-to-date

    We will work with key partners and the community to develop and implement the actions in the LULUCF Plan.

    We will keep you informed through this website, and we encourage you to sign up for our newsletter and follow the Tasmanian Climate Change Office on Facebook.