2025 consultation

Provide your input to inform our work and advice

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This consultation is closed

From April to August 2025, we held our first state-wide engagement and heard from a range of stakeholders to help inform the approach to our work and advice to government.

Thank you to the many individuals, businesses and stakeholders across NSW who contributed. Your insights are essential to help shape our work plan, inform our policy recommendations and influence key outputs including our annual progress report.

What did we hear? 

We received over 200 submissions, and held a range of roundtables and meetings, gathering valuable insights across a wide range of perspectives.

Read our full Engagement Summary Report 2025

The Net Zero Commission’s first Engagement Summary Report provides an overview of what we heard from the engagement held during 2025.

Download the report (PDF, 3.37 MB)

Key themes from stakeholder feedback included:

  • Experiences of climate change impacts
  • Challenges in adapting to climate change or reducing emissions
  • Gaps and issues in current climate policy
  • Suggested actions for NSW’s climate change approach
     

View all submissions

What’s next?

Your feedback will guide the commission’s ongoing work, including:

  • shaping advice in upcoming reports, such as the 2025 Annual Progress Report
  • refining our monitoring approach to track NSW’s progress
  • identifying priority areas for deeper investigation
  • targeting future engagement to foster ongoing conversations and deliver outputs that reflect stakeholder experiences across NSW

 


  1. Consultation period

    Wednesday 9 April 2025 – Friday 11 July 2025

  2. Submissions review

    Monday 14 July 2025 – Wednesday 23 July 2025

  3. Submissions available

    Thursday 24 July 2025

    View all submissions

  4. Engagement Roundtables

    June – August 2025

    Illawarra, Hunter, Youth and Northern Rivers

  5. Engagement Summary Report 2025 published

    December 2025