About the EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a Queensland Government department with the role of managing climate change and protecting the environment.
Our vision: an environmentally sustainable Queensland
Our mission
To provide environmentally sustainable solutions for Queensland’s future through leadership in:
- Conserving Queensland’s landscapes;
- Enabling sustainable development;
- Improving business and industry’s environmental performance; and
- Building community knowledge and participation.
Our values
To deliver these priorities our agency will focus on:
- Innovation and proactive problem solving;
- Working in partnerships with Government, business, industry and community groups;
- Providing excellent customer service, which is efficient, responsive, transparent and integrated; and
- Creating and using knowledge to build a strong evidence base for action.
Our structure and outputs
The agency has three Outputs that directly contribute to the EPA’s vision of an environmentally sustainable Queensland and the Government priority of managing climate change and protecting the environment. Our organisational structure is aligned to our strategies for the future, and these align to our Outputs.
Conservation and Environmental Services Output
The agency’s core service delivery output is the Conservation and Environmental Services Output which reflects the agency’s objective to provide a whole of landscape perspective for managing the present for an environmentally sustainable future. The two sub-outputs are:
Queensland Parks and Wildlife: to conserve and manage the EPA Estate to build resilience in natural systems and provide safe, substantial and sustainable benefits to the Queensland community.
Environmental Services: to enable sustainable development and the improvement of business and industry’s environmental performance.
Sustainable Futures Output
The Sustainable Futures Output reflects the Agency’s objective to taking a strategic approach to planning for, designing and communicating an environmentally sustainable future. The four sub-outputs are:
Climate Change: to provide a leadership role in climate change policy responses that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare Queensland for the impacts of climate change.
Sustainable Communities: to inform, involve and partner with our communities and industries to realise an environmentally sustainable Queensland.
Sustainability Innovation: to lead future scanning and innovation to guide future government actions to address existing and emerging environmental issues.
Strategy and Policy: to influence and create the future direction of environmental sustainability policy and strategy.
Performance and Capability Output
The Performance and Capability Output reflects the agency’s objective to lead organisational sustainability through valuing our people, our capability and our knowledge. The two sub-outputs are:
Environmental Sciences: to provide a robust scientific evidence base for policy development and decision making.
Corporate Sustainability: to lead the development of a sustainable organisation.
2008 EPA Organisational Structure
Last updated: 08 May 2008
