Our Vision: A world where nature thrives.

EDO systematically engages in work practices that foster a culture of reflection, learning, growth, wellbeing and accountability.

We understand and believe in the importance of the contribution of all roles towards our shared mission, we are One EDO and adopt ‘the EDO Way’.

EDO has a strong cultural identity, we enjoy a shared language, we identify with our mission and bring our values to life through our actions.

We are a diverse and inclusive organisation; staff bring their whole self to work and feel safe and inspired.

Clients and front-line communities working for Paris-aligned emissions abatement from fossil fuel projects have access to legal services including advice and representation to scrutinise projects and proposals which will contribute to dangerous climate heating.

The true environmental, social and climate impacts of fossil fuels and fossil fuel projects are accurately presented and understood by communities and actors that misrepresent or misstate those impacts are held to account.

Technologies and products which underpin justifications for new or expanded fossil fuel projects are accurately presented and appropriately scrutinised to ensure Paris-aligned Climate Targets are not undermined.

Clients and frontline communities who seek to advance a safe climate and environmental justice have access to legal services including advice and representation to seek legal redress through legal challenges and complaints relating to impacts on health, Country and culture, adaptation failure, loss and damage and breaches of human rights from climate change and fossil fuel pollution.

Clients and frontline communities have access to legal services, including advice and representation to defend native forest ecosystems and prevent extinctions arising from native forestry operations.

Legal protection for threatened species and ecological communities from destructive ecosystem clearing is improved via enforcement and reform.

Communities are equipped with/able to access legal services, including advice and representation to ensure corporate actors are held to account for unlawful activities and the economic calculus favours retention and restoration of landscapes and marine environments.

Prevent extinctions by providing legal services to clients and communities, including advice and legal representation, to challenge key threatening processes, particularly where a process is highly uncertain in impact or highly likely to see native species or ecological communities included or upgraded in a threatened list.

Support frontline communities to fight for readily available access to high quality drinking water.

Support frontline communities to prevent pollution of and obtain strong legal protection for freshwater systems.

Promote and advocate for customary law / rights of nature / ancestral personhood approaches to freshwater systems, where it aligns with Indigenous community understandings and desires.

Advocate for increased legal recognition of Indigenous Peoples water rights, aligning with principles of UNDRIP and community understanding of Indigenous ways of knowing water.

First Nations and Indigenous Communities have access to legal advice, education and representation to fight for the protection of their cultural heritage, and to hold those who damage, destroy or desecrate cultural heritage accountable.

First Nations and Indigenous Communities have access to legal support to access and look after Country and cultural heritage as the community deems appropriate.

Advocate for cultural heritage reform across Australia and the Pacific which improves rights of First Nations and Indigenous communities to defend cultural heritage and challenges western notions of cultural heritage and upholds UNDRIP, and especially FPIC.

The public across the region understands the importance of contemporary cultural heritage protection as a crucial component for protecting Country.

Advocate as legal experts for legislative reform & changes in systems and structures which acknowledge and address historical and current injustices (specifically acknowledging colonialism as a systemic driver of environmental degradation) and promote decolonisation and indigenisation within legal frameworks and their implementation.

Utilising our legal expertise, design best practice law reform that is systemic and challenges existing legal and systemic boundaries, laying the groundwork for implementing and enforcing environmental human rights, justice frameworks and UNDRIP.

Narrative shifts to valuing nature not as a commodity, but as crucial for sustaining life, culture and livelihoods sees legal frameworks effectively regulate to avoid ecosystem destruction and account for cumulative impacts to ecosystems.

Shift narratives to acknowledge and centre First Nations and Indigenous peoples, to respect and acknowledge first laws, kastom, knowledges, lived experiences, worldviews and cultural understandings.