The Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) welcomes the opportunity to provide comment on the National Energy Transition Authority Bill 2022. To meet Australia’s legislated emissions reduction targets, and ultimately the Paris Agreement Goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, there needs to be a large-scale energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. […]
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By the Pasifika Team’s Senior Solicitor Watna Mori and Head of Litigation and Climate Lead Fleur Ramsay In a historic moment, as the 27th Session of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP 27) drew to a close in Egypt, the member states agreed to the establishment of […]
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Greenwashing is on the rise, undermining our efforts to tackle the climate crisis at a time when it matters most. We use the law to hold companies to account for the claims they make on climate and to change corporate behaviour for better outcomes for communities, investors and the planet. For a safe future, scientists agree […]
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EDO welcomes the opportunity to make a submission on the Northern Territory draft Biodiversity Offsets Policy and the draft Biodiversity Offsets Technical Guidelines. […]
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Your generous donation is helping to take big polluters to court and turn the climate and extinction crises around. Right now, corporate polluters are forging ahead with around 114 new coal and gas projects across Australia. If they go ahead, it would lock in decades more carbon pollution and climate disasters. The law is our […]
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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 […]
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