The Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on the PLA Bill. We commend the amendment of the Petroleum Acts to provide greater environmental protection, and to attempt to ensure that the cost of environmental harm caused by fossil fuel production is borne by those who profit from the harmful activities. However, […]
The Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) welcomes the opportunity to make 8 key recommendations on Treasury’s Consultation Paper on climate-related financial disclosure. It is critical that alignment with the 1.5℃ temperature goal of the Paris Agreement and Australia’s legislated net zero emissions by 2050 target is central to the design of a mandatory climate-related disclosure framework. […]
For years, EDO has consistently recommended that the rules for biodiversity offsetting must meet best practice and deliver genuine improvements for the environment, especially endangered plants and animals. Yet governments have continually failed to implement these recommendations, and iconic species like the koala are one step closer to extinction. In this discussion paper, EDO takes […]
The 2019-2020 bushfire season highlighted the failings of our environmental laws to be able to respond to such major events in an immediate and holistic way; and with the impacts of climate change, those major events are likely to become more common. In this discussion paper, EDO sets out key recommendations on how our legal […]
Protecting unburnt areas remains an urgent priority following the 2019-2020 bushfires. These areas are critical refuges for wildlife and sinks for forest carbon, and will remain so for many years to come as burnt areas recover. However, unburnt areas not already protected (eg in national parks) remain at risk from key threats, including a warming […]
EDO welcomes the opportunity to make a submission in relation to cost recovery for environmental assessments under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EBPC Act). EDO’s recommendations address the need for secure, long term funding for the new Environmental Protection Agency; access to justice and access to information; and robust, comprehensive and objective […]
The Supreme Court of the Northern Territory will hear from Traditional Owners who have taken legal action over the Northern Territory Government’s decision to slash the security bond of Glencore’s McArthur River Mine and approve the expansion of the mine without a closure plan. Jack Green, a Garawa elder and Traditional Owner in Borroloola, said […]
The Queensland Land Court’s recommendation of refusal of the massive Galilee Coal Project will stand after Waratah Coal dropped its legal appeal on Friday. [1] [2] It now falls to the Qld Resources Minister Scott Stewart and the Qld Department of Environment and Science to decide whether to issue the mining lease and environmental authority […]
Legal protections for Sydney’s koalas are woefully inadequate and will fail to halt the decline of the iconic species, a new EDO report has found. On behalf of Sydney Basin Koala Network (SBKN), EDO law reform Special Counsel Cerin Loane analysed the legal and regulatory frameworks for protecting koalas and found planning, environment and natural […]
The Central Australian Frack Free Alliance (CAFFA) has launched a legal challenge to gas company Tamboran’s approval to drill and frack 12 exploratory wells about 600km south of Darwin. CAFFA will ask the NT Supreme Court to review the decision of NT Environment Minister Lauren Moss last November to approve the project’s Environmental Management Plan […]
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