By Claire Bookless, Managing Lawyer, lutruwita/Tasmania In the past eight years, the Tasmanian Government has announced numerous reforms, reviews and new policies with the potential to strike at the heart of the state’s environmental and planning laws. The government is pursuing policies that could fundamentally change our state, its environment and communities. Among those policies are […]
EDO welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Queensland Water Legislation Amendment Bill 2022. EDO has consistently argued for improved metering and measurement of extractions, greater transparency with respect to usage and account data and greater protection of environmental flows across all Murray Darling Basin (MDB) jurisdictions. Our submission recommends improvements to the proposed amendments […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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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