EDO welcomes the opportunity to make submissions on the WA EPA’s proposed revision of its Environmental Factor Guideline for Greenhouse Gas Emissions, which guides how the WA EPA considers greenhouse gas emissions in the environmental impact assessment process. While the WA EPA is to be commended for reviewing the content of the Guideline, it requires […]
The cultural heritage of First Nations has not been adequately recognised, respected or protected by western law since Europeans arrived and the western laws today are still failing to provide necessary respect to First Nations and protection of their cultural heritage. This failure is a breach of our international law obligations, including under the United […]
The Safeguard Mechanism has the most potential out of all policy commitments currently in the Powering Australia Plan to result in real emissions mitigation and abatement, if reforms are prudent and ambitious. With just 7 years in between the commencement of the proposed reforms and the 2030 emissionsreduction target milestone, there is no option but […]
EDO welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the Government’s proposal to develop alegislated framework to underpin a voluntary national biodiversity market (the biodiversitymarket framework). The biodiversity market framework is intended to facilitate investment in conservation andrestoration. In essence, it will establish a mechanism for landholders to be rewarded forconservation action – by issuing certificates […]
Supplementary submission to the inquiry into Australia’s extinction crisis being undertaken by the Commonwealth Senate Environment and Communications References Committee. This supplementary submission provides additional and updated information to our earlier report including: the adequacy of existing funding streams for implementing threatened species recovery plans and preventing threatened fauna loss in general; final report of […]
In response to EDO’s groundbreaking case of behalf of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BSCA), the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has prepared a draft Climate Policy and Action Plan. This is a vitally important step in recognising and clarifying the duty of the EPA to address climate change and regulate greenhouse gas pollution. Community […]
Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Department of Nature Resources and Environment Tasmania’s Discussion Paper: Towards a 10-Year Salmon Plan (Discussion Paper). There can be little doubt after the Legislative Council Inquiry Report on Finfish Farming in Tasmania dated May 2022 that community perceptions of the sustainability of the salmon […]
The EDO has made a submission to the UN High level working group around key priority areas for guidance on net zero and transition plans, including the need for the HLEG to provide clear definition of key terms such as Paris-aligned and science-based, clarification of how and when scope 3 emissions should be included in […]
Environmental Defenders Office welcomes the opportunity to help scope the issues for the first five yearly review of the State Planning Provisions (SPPs review). In this submission EDO outlines the key issues it considers should be covered in the SPPs review. […]
The EDO welcomes the opportunity to comment on the ACT Government’s investigation into including the right to a healthy environment in the Human Rights Act 2004 (ACT). Our submission makes 17 recommendations to ensure that, if the right to a healthy environment is included in the Human Rights Act 2004, it is appropriately defined and […]
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