Department for Environment and Water

What is climate change?

Get the facts on climate change and what you can do to help

How is climate change affecting South Australia?

Learn how climate change is affecting the state and find the latest climate projections

Programs and initiatives

Find out what's being done to protect our coasts, climate adaptation, carbon farming and Building Upgrade Finance

South Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions

Find out what SA's emissions are and strategies in place to reduce them

SA climate change legislation

Find out about the Climate Change and Greenhouse Emissions Reduction Act 2007

Premier’s Climate Change Council

Providing independent advice to the Minister for Environment and Water on climate change

Acknowledgement of Country

The Department for Environment and Water acknowledges Aboriginal people as the First Peoples and Nations of the lands and waters we live and work upon and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and respect the deep spiritual connection and the relationship that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to Country.

The Department works in partnership with the First Peoples of South Australia and supports their Nations to take a leading role in caring for their Country.