Reduce your carbon footprint
Though climate change can appear overwhelming, there are a number of ways you can take direct action to make your home and lifestyle more environmentally friendly and to reduce your personal carbon footprint.
What you can do right now
The Australian Government has a range of programs, rebates, tips, and other information 
that can help you to make the transition.
The Australian Carbon Trust Pledge Fund
The Government is setting up the Australian Carbon Trust and it will include an Energy Efficiency Pledge Fund to help households and businesses take action on climate change and directly contribute to lowering Australia’s carbon pollution levels.
The fund will be launched in 2010 and updates will be provided on our website and through our email alerts.
Voluntary action
The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 allows voluntary action to be taken into account when setting future scheme caps.
Consumers who take voluntary action are reducing their personal carbon pollution emissions. The Australian Government will factor those reductions into the economy-wide cap it places on Australia's overall emissions through the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
Through the GreenPower initiative, Australian households and businesses can choose to purchase some, or all, of their electricity from renewable sources. By purchasing GreenPower you can further reduce your personal carbon pollution emissions.
Offsetting Your Carbon Pollution
Once you have reduced your carbon pollution emissions as much as possible by becoming more energy efficient and making smarter choices, you can reduce your carbon pollution even further by offsetting remaining emissions.
Offsetting your own emissions simply means that you pay someone else to reduce the carbon pollution in the atmosphere to offset your emissions. For example, you may pay someone to plant and maintain a forest plantation that absorbs carbon pollution from the atmosphere.
To provide Australians with certainty that the offsets they buy are genuine, the Government is developing a National Carbon Offset Standard to ensure there are clear criteria around how offsets are generated, verified and calculated.
Greenhouse Friendly™
The Greenhouse Friendly™ stamp of approval highlights products and services that are carbon-neutral or which offset their carbon emissions using genuine offset credits. There are a wide range of products from airline flights to carpets to beer. Discover which products and services have been awarded the Greenhouse Friendly™ certification.