August 2022: All human rights ultimately depend on a healthy environment. It was recognised 50 years ago that the environment is essential to humanity’s wellbeing and to the enjoyment of basic human rights. It is recognised today that the triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution pose the ‘single greatest challenge to […]
It is an exciting time for climate policy in Australia. Legislation to establish a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for Australia has been brought before the new Australian Parliament. The Climate Change Bill 2022 enshrines targets of reducing Australia’s net greenhouse gas emissions to 43% below 2005 levels by 2030, and to net zero by 2050. […]
By Rachel Walmsley, Head of Policy & law Reform and Nicole Sommer, Director, Healthy Environment & Justice Program The latest State of The Environment Report is somehow both unsurprising but also deeply shocking. Take a deep breath and prepare for a sobering read if you delve into the details. Prepared every five years, the report […]
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EDO welcomes this opportunity to respond to the Modernising Tasmania’s Fisheries Legislation: A Review of the Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995 Discussion Paper dated February 2022 (Discussion Paper). This submission responds to the discussion paper and makes recommendations for the improvement of Tasmania’s marine laws. […]
Brief submissions on the status of water trading in New South Wales addressing Aboriginal Water Dispossession, the effectiveness of water registration and disclosure and the effects of water trading on the communities and the environment. […]
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By Melanie Montalban (Managing Lawyer – ACT) and Frances Bradshaw (Senior Solicitor), Healthy Environment and Justice Program, Canberra The UN General Assembly is meeting in New York this week starting 25 July 2022 to consider a resolution recognising the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment (the ‘right to a healthy environment’). An earlier decision […]
EDO welcomes the opportunity to comment on Forestry Corporation New South Wales draft Forest Management Plan – Softwood Plantations and Coastal Hardwood Forests for July 2022 to June 2027 (Draft FMP). Our submission is confined to commenting on the Draft FMP generally, and in so far as it applies to native state hardwood forests that […]
By Senior Solicitor Cerin Loane Following the Commonwealth’s decision earlier this year to upgrade the conservation status of koalas from vulnerable to endangered under national law, New South Wales has followed suit, uplisting the koala from vulnerable to endangered under the State’s Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. We now consider what implications this may have for the […]
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Forty civil society organisations have expressed alarm at reports of police overreach in preemptive policing of protest, with NSW police conducting covert surveillance and a raid on climate activists north of Sydney on Sunday (June 19). Police had been covertly surveilling a private property where individuals linked to Blockade Australia were camped. Blockade Australia has […]
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EDO welcomes the opportunity to comment on Draft Aquaculture Standards for Tasmania. In this submission, we respond to This submission responds to the Draft Environmental Standard for Marine Finfish Farms and to the Draft Standardised Marine Farming Management Controls (as they relate to finfish farming). EDO’s submission also responds to broader concerns around the regulation […]
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