When we talk of environment, what first comes to our mind is “The future hell on earth”. Our resources are running out, the air is bad, the water worse. The planet’s species are dying of f-more exactly, we’re killing them at the staggering rate of one lac per year, a figure that works out to almost 2000 species per week, 300 per day, 10 per hour, another dead species every 6 minutes. We’re trashing the planet, washing away the top soil, paving over our farmlands, systematically deforesting our wilderness, decimating the biota and ultimately killing ourselves.

　The world is getting progressively poorer, and it is all because of populating or more precisely, over population. There’s a finite store of resources on our pale blue dot, spaceship Earth, our small and fragile tiny planet, and we are fast approaching its ultimate carrying capacity. The limits to growth are finally upon us, and we are living on borrowed time. The laws of population growth are inexorable, unless we act decisively, the final result is written on stone: mass poverty, feminine, starvation and death, Time is short, and we have to act now. That’s the standard and canonical litany. Its been drilled into our heads so far and so forcefully that to hear it yet once more is…Well its almost reassuring. It is comforting, oddly consoling- at least we’re face to face with the enemies: consumption, population, mindless growth. And we know the solution: cut back, make do with less. ”Live simply so that others may simply live”.

　Damaging the environment is not a petty issue. In the effort of protecting the environment, we will consider the effect of our actions before making the decisions. Will our actions do any good to the environment or will it continue to harm the environment? This is the question that must be thought of when taking actions. As we all know, we do not have centuries to go anymore. We have only a few more decades to go before total extinction of all the species on Earth.

　Recycling is a very basic but important action that everyone should adopt now. In the wake of global warming right now it is important that we recycle. The need to recycle is based on the fact that our natural resources are diminishing. If we do not recycle, factories will have to process the raw material and this will result in more heat release into the environment. A very basic way to recycle is to separate our rubbish into papers, metals and glass. Others waste such as food can be used to make compost. Besides recycling, we will also reuse things that can be used again such as food containers and shopping bags. Food containers can be kept aside. It can be used to keep food when needed. Shopping bags can also be used to carry different things.

　Business can also play an important role in protecting the environment. ”…Shall be likened onto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand”.(taken from Mathew 7:26, King James, Bible).

　There can be little doubt that mankind and indeed the whole planet is facing and environmental crisis. Whether that crisis is brought to tread by global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, tropical deforestation or top soil erosion, remains to be seen. Business produces the goods and services that meet5 our needs but in turn lead to much destruction. But if the business activities are taken on waste lands or lands far off the non biodegradable products again and again in their own commodity production is one way or another. This will help in protecting the environment to a large extent.

　Now, what are the measures taken by our government. Environmental issues increasingly become important and closely tighten within our daily life therefore this paper attempts to look at the way from Austrailian Government to protect the environment by using different methods, which includes legislation; signing international agreement and financial assistance to a whole range of environmental program.

　The Austrailian Emissions trading scheme known as ETS and NETS is initiative legislation by the government to protect our environment. The Rudd Government implement the ETS aims to adjust for the challenges of global climate change and it involves with range of effective policy. The policy aims at reducing the country’s carbon consumption level as well as achieve the Greenhouse Gas Abatement. The ETS is needed to finalize in the beginning of 2009 after the Rudd Government release the proposal framework of this July 2008(The Sydney Morning Herald, 2008).

　There has been much more that the government all over the world have done to protect the environment.