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By EDO Managing Lawyer Kirsty Ruddock & Senior Solicitor Zoe Bush Last year, the EDO on behalf of its client, the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, brought a world-first case against Santos Limited for its allegedly misleading net zero emissions claim. [1] While expanding its fossil fuel production, Santos claimed it had a credible plan […]
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In August 2021, a group of survivors of the horrific Black Summer bushfires took a landmark climate case to the NSW Land & Environment Court and won. For the first time, an Australian court allowed evidence on climate change to be heard in a case involving an alleged failure by a government agency – the […]
Read More… from EDO submission on the NSW EPA Draft Climate Change Policy & Action Plan
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EDO welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Draft Tasmanian Planning Policies (TPPs) before they are submitted for consideration by the Tasmanian Planning Commission. The TPPs will provide the overarching guidance and direction of both Regional Land Use Strategies (RLUS) and the Tasmanian Planning Scheme. Our submission focused on the need for the TPPs to […]
Read More… from EDO submission to the 2022 Draft Tasmanian Planning Policies
EDO is concerned that the increasing use of carbon offsets undermines the urgent task of reducing fossil fuel emissions to limit global warming consistent with international agreement, particularly where carbon offsets are shown to be falling short of best practice. In our submission, we raise concerns and examples of increasing corporate reliance on offsetting in […]
Read More… from EDO submission to the Independent review of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs)
This submission is made in the context of EDO’s primary submission in response to the Safeguard Mechanism Consultation Paper, 20 September 2022 (EDO’s Primary Recommendations). Here, we respond directly to a narrower set of proposals drafted in the Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Bill 2022 and Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Amendment (Safeguard Facility Eligibility Requirements) […]
Read More… from EDO submission on proposed Safeguard Mechanism amendments
The Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) welcomes the opportunity to provide comment on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Climate Trigger) Bill 2022 (the Bill). We strongly support fundamental legislative reform in this term of parliament to address the inter-related climate and extinction crises. EDO has consistently advocated for climate change considerations to be expressly […]
The Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Native ForestWood Waste in the Renewable Energy Target – Consultation Paper. The use of native forest biomass to generate electricity has long been a concern for EDO and our clients. In this submission EDO recommends that native forest biomass should be removed from […]
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