Prepared every three years, the NSW State of the Environment (SoE) reports on the status of key environmental issues facing New South Wales.
The SoE 2015 report presents 20 themes grouped under the two categories: ‘environmental drivers’ and ‘environmental resources’. Across the 20 themes the report rates 65 specific indicators for status, environmental trends, and information availability.
As with all NSW SoE reporting, the 2015 report relies on extensive contributions from many NSW Government departments and agencies, as well as within the EPA. Data and information in the 2015 report was appraised and validated by NSW agencies through an extensive process of review. Independent experts also provided a range of perspectives, additions and helpful advice.
Full report and summary brochure
- NSW State of the Environment 2015 full report (PDF 8MB)
- NSW State of the Environment 2015 summary brochure (PDF 422KB)
The 2015 report is also available for download by section:
Preliminary section
Environmental drivers
- 1 Population (PDF 600KB)
- 2 Economics and the environment (PDF 312KB)
- 3 Energy consumption (PDF 539KB)
- 4 Transport (PDF 318KB)
- 5 Greenhouse gas emissions (PDF 530KB)
- 6 Urban water (PDF 483KB)
- 7 Waste and recycling (PDF 456KB)
Environmental resources
- 8 Air quality (PDF 548KB)
- 9 Contaminated sites (PDF 367KB)
- 10 Soil condition (PDF 488KB)
- 11 Sustainable land management (PDF 481KB)
- 12 Threatened species (PDF 321KB)
- 13 Native vegetation (PDF 356KB)
- 14 Protected areas and conservation (PDF 465KB)
- 15 Invasive species (PDF 258KB)
- 16 Water resources (PDF 469KB)
- 17 River health (PDF 486KB)
- 18 Wetlands (PDF 386KB)
- 19 Groundwater (PDF 482KB)
- 20 Coastal, estuarine and marine ecosystems (PDF 684KB)
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More information
- New South Wales State of the Environment reporting