Combating Climate Change

The impact of climate change is a critical issue worldwide. Greening Australia is stepping up the scale of its work to meet the challenge. 

Greening Australia is stepping up the scale of its work to challenge the effects of climate change through its groundbreaking carbon offset initiative Breathe Easy, and a number of other leading programs which you can learn more about by clicking on the projects menu to the left.

The need to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases produced by human activity (particularly by burning fossil fuels and land clearing) to slow down global climate change is now recognised worldwide by governments, industry and the community as more urgent than ever.

Climate change is caused by an increase in greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere. Gases can be naturally-occurring or manufactured, with carbon dioxide (C02) a major contributing gas to global warming. Trees use up carbon dioxide as theygrow, converting it to wood, leaves, roots and bark. In fact, about half of the dry weight of a tree is carbon. As a result trees provide long-term stable storehouses of carbon that would otherwise contribute to the surplus of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

For this reason, Greening Australia is actively addressing climate change by planting native trees, in addition to encouraging all Australians to reduce their ecological footprint - an equally important step in reducing the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.