Corporate Social Responsibility at Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA)

DEECA has several social responsibility initiatives. the ones I'm most familiar with are the ones around procurement that encourage teams to seek out businesses that are First Nations owned, support disadvantaged communities or have clear environmental sustainability protocols.

We have no CSR projects beyond what our work product is focussed on (which often requires thinking about social and environmental impacts).

Really strong efforts to source sustainably and create good culture

I am currently working in the community and partnerships team so I have seen first hand the amount of work the department does to ensure communities are empowered to speak and be heard on projects and works happening in that area. I have a sense that this hasn't always worked in the past but there is a lot of proactive work being done by my team to ensure our communities see the benefits of infrastructure like wind turbines being installed on their land

I think the level of commitment is appropriate for a government department, which needs to remain impartial and apolitical.