EDO welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications’ inquiry into greenwashing. This submission sets out key observations drawn from our work examining potential greenwashing and related conduct, and several recommendations to improve protection from greenwashing. […]
EDO appreciates the invitation for supplementary submissions to the Senate inquiry into greenwashing. This supplementary submission sets out several recent developments and examples from our work since our initial submission dated 9 June 2023. […]
EDO welcomes the introduction by the Federal Government of mandatory climate related financial disclosures through the Treasury Laws Amendment Bill 2024 (the Bill) that will mandate new reporting requirements through the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Improving financial disclosures will assist investors in understanding how a company is addressing climate change and the risks to a […]
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EDO welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to inform the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment’s report on the implementation of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. […]
A Federal Court judge has dismissed a historic legal challenge to the agreement that allows logging in north-eastern NSW native forests. [1] The North East NSW Regional Forest Agreement (North East RFA) covers the vast coastal area between Sydney and the Queensland border, and exempts logging from federal environmental assessment under the Environmental Protection and […]
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EDO’s submission to the Threatened Species Strategy Review Discussion Paper considers the Discussion Paper through a legal lens, including with regard to the Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 (Tas) (under which the Strategy is made) and how the framework as a whole can deliver improved outcomes for threatened species. Our submission provides overarching comments about […]
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The Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the direction of the Australian Government’s Climate Active program (Consultation Paper). We advocate for law and policy reform that is science-based, prudent and ambitious enough to meet the scale of theclimate crisis. […]
EDO invites the opportunity to make a submission to the Inquiry into the Human Rights (Healthy Environment) Amendment Bill 2023. EDO supports the Bill as an important step towards recognising the standalone human right to a healthy environment in the ACT. Our submission outlines why the right to a healthy environment should be fully enforceable […]
The Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport is an infrastructure project proposed by the Commonwealth Government (Project). This factsheet provides information in relation to: The environmental assessment and approvals processes for the Project; How and when you can have your say including on the proposed flight paths whichare currently open for public comment; and What […]
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Parts of harsh anti-protest laws passed in NSW last year have been found to be unconstitutional after a legal challenge by two Knitting Nannas protesters who argued they impermissibly burdened the implied freedom of political communication. [1] Two Knitting Nannas, Helen Kvelde and Dominique Jacobs, took legal action to defend the right to protest in October […]
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