| NT Strategy for Greenhouse Action 2006 |
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Guides the NT Government action to minimise greenhouse gas emissions and increases understanding of the impacts of climate change. |
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| COOLmob program |
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The NT Government provides funding for two community-based COOLmob programs (in the Top End and Central Australia). These programs educate and empower individuals and households about how they can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, improve their energy and water efficiency and adopt other elements of sustainable living. The program involves household energy and water audits as well as awareness raising activities. |
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| NT Government Energy Smart Buildings Policy |
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The Energy Smart Buildings Policy aims to achieve and maintain best practice energy management in NT Government-occupied buildings, to save operating expenditure and greenhouse gas emissions. |
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| Schools Blitz Program |
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Six Darwin/Palmerston schools were involved with the schools energy blitz project, a collaborative initiative between the NT Government, COOLmob and the Australian Government. Schools worked with the COOLmob energy auditor and identified projects that made energy savings and reduced greenhouse gas emissions by between 2% - 5%. |
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| Solar Cities |
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Solar Cities is designed to demonstrate how solar power, smart meters, energy efficiency and new approaches to electricity pricing can combine to provide a sustainable energy future in urban locations throughout Australia. Alice Springs is participating in the Solar Cities program. |
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| Renewable Energy Rebate Program |
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The NT Government administers the Commonwealth Renewable Remote Power Generation Program for the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. The program provides financial support to increase the use of renewable generation in remote parts of Australia that presently rely on fossil fuel for electricity supply. |
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| Tourism NT - Outback Offsets |
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Tourism NT has recently launched the Outback Offsets program as part of the “Get ceNTred” campaign. Outback Offsets is a pilot program which aims for the operations of participating tour companies to be carbon neutral for the 2008/09 year. |
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| Tourism NT – Tourism Electricity Support Program |
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The Tourism Electricity Support Program (TESP) aims to assist in the attraction of new, destination-appropriate major tourism infrastructure outside the Territory's main regional centres. TESP provides grants to qualifying applicants to fund electricity generation and priority is placed on applications which incorporate renewable energy generation systems or other energy efficiency initiatives. |
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| Tourism NT – Make the Switch Program |
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This program encourages the NT tourism industry to minimise their environmental impact. The program provides additional assistance for the tourism industry in accessing the Renewable Energy Rebate Program to convert to renewable technologies. |
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| EnvironmeNT Grants program |
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This program provides grants annually to individuals, community groups, local government and industry associations for environmental projects and educational activities in the Territory. |
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| NT Travelsmart Workplace project |
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Jointly funded by the NT Government and Australian Government, this project aims to increase the use of sustainable modes of transport for journeys to and from NT Government workplaces. |
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| West Arnhem Land Fire Abatement Project |
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| With private industry and NT Government support, Indigenous people of West Arnhem Land are implementing strategic fire management practices to reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions from savanna fires in the region. |
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| Re-thinking Waste Disposal Behaviour and Resource Efficiency Interim Action Plan 2007 |
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This Plan is a collaboration between the NT Government, and the Packaging Stewardship Forum (PSF) and involves finding opportunities to integrate resource recovery and litter management with regional development and capacity building. |