The Wentworth Group, together with experts from academia, government and business, has developed a Blueprint to Repair Australia’s Landscapes. The Blueprint describes a suite of 24 practical actions and investments, across five key environmental asset groups, to repair Australia’s degraded landscapes.
The objective of the Blueprint is to put forward the national case and articulate a practical vision for repairing Australia’s landscapes and, in doing so, prepare for the unprecedented climatic pressures ahead.
The Blueprint is effectively an evidence-based prospectus laying out a 30-year action plan and identifying public and private investment opportunities that would repair much of Australia’s degraded landscapes and set Australia on a nature positive trajectory.
The Blueprint is the most comprehensive assessment of its kind and demonstrates that it’s possible to repair Australia’s degraded landscapes – our soils, inland waters, native vegetation, threatened species and coastal environments – while boosting economic productivity and sequestering carbon in landscapes.
It builds on the enormous effort to date at the government, business and community level and shows how repair actions can be undertaken in a way that increases agricultural productivity on prime farmland, supports jobs and businesses in regional areas, helps Australia achieve its biodiversity and climate goals and increases the resilience of ecosystems to extreme events and climate change.
The Blueprint is presented in three parts:
The Blueprint Synthesis Report summarises the case for a 30-year investment in a healthy, productive & resilient Australia.
The Blueprint Technical Review identifies objectives across soils, inland waters, native vegetation, threatened species and coastal environments, the repair actions required, the estimated investment for repair and the many benefits of doing so.
An Investment Spreadsheets contains the data and algorithms that form the basis of the investment estimates.
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Table of Contents
- Blueprint to Repair Australia’s Landscapes 1
- National case for a 30-year investment in a healthy, productive & resilient Australia 1
- Contents 4
- Overview 5
- Key findings 7
- What we can achieve by 2055 8
- The national case for repairing Australia’s landscapes 12
- The Australian landscape in context 12
- Redefining our relationship with the land 12
- New and emerging influences on our landscapes 13
- A whole-of-landscape, regionally-based mosaic approach 14
- The important role of Indigenous nations in repairing Country 15
- Financing the repair effort 17
- Investment needed 17
- Financing opportunities 17
- The substantial contribution of carbon markets 18
- Recommendations 19
- References 20