审查建议削减部门预算并集中资金用于紧急优先事项。堪培拉 — — 澳大利亚气候变化官僚被敦促将内部预算削减多达30%，并实现每年高达3%的AI驱动效率提升，以保持部门履行其最高优先事项的能力。
Review recommends department cuts budget and pools money for urgent priorities. CANBERRA — Australia’s climate change bureaucrats were urged to cut up to 30% of their internal budgets, and hit AI-driven efficiencies of up to 3% a year, to preserve the department’s ability to deliver its highest priorities.
在2026年5月的优先事项审查中，政府内部咨询单位呼吁气候变化高管对“政策组预算”征收5%至30%的费用，作为“紧迫财政必要”的措施。“所提出的方法要求所有小组向一个中央资金池做出贡献，该资金池将重新分配给部门的最高优先事项，”据POLITICO看到的澳大利亚政府咨询报告所述。
In a May 2026 review of priorities, the government’s internal consulting unit called for climate change executives to impose a levy of between 5% and 30% to “policy group budgets” as a matter of “immediate fiscal imperative.”“The proposed approach requires all groups to contribute to a central funding pool that is reallocated to the highest departmental priorities,” according to the Australian Government Consulting report, seen by POLITICO.
该审查暴露了该部门面临的资金压力之大，该部门在2026年联邦预算中遭遇了1.88亿澳元的削减。该部门预计在2028-29财年将把经费削减至7.47亿澳元，较本财年的10.9亿澳元有所下降。
The review exposes the intensity of funding pressures at the department, which was hit with cuts of 188 million Australian dollars in the 2026 federal budget. The department is expected to cut funding to $747 million in 2028-29, down from $1.09 billion this financial year.