In response to EDO’s groundbreaking case of behalf of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BSCA), the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has prepared a draft Climate Policy and Action Plan. This is a vitally important step in recognising and clarifying the duty of the EPA to address climate change and regulate greenhouse gas pollution. Community […]
Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Department of Nature Resources and Environment Tasmania’s Discussion Paper: Towards a 10-Year Salmon Plan (Discussion Paper). There can be little doubt after the Legislative Council Inquiry Report on Finfish Farming in Tasmania dated May 2022 that community perceptions of the sustainability of the salmon […]
The EDO has made a submission to the UN High level working group around key priority areas for guidance on net zero and transition plans, including the need for the HLEG to provide clear definition of key terms such as Paris-aligned and science-based, clarification of how and when scope 3 emissions should be included in […]
Environmental Defenders Office welcomes the opportunity to help scope the issues for the first five yearly review of the State Planning Provisions (SPPs review). In this submission EDO outlines the key issues it considers should be covered in the SPPs review. […]
The EDO welcomes the opportunity to comment on the ACT Government’s investigation into including the right to a healthy environment in the Human Rights Act 2004 (ACT). Our submission makes 17 recommendations to ensure that, if the right to a healthy environment is included in the Human Rights Act 2004, it is appropriately defined and […]
Environmental claims can be a powerful marketing tool. In the race to tackle dangerous climate change, it is essential that Australians are provided with accurate information about the products and services that are being advertised to them. Greenwashing is becoming more common and harder to spot as a record number of energy companies make climate […]
EDO lawyers are heading to Court this week, September 7 – 9, for a hearing over the legal challenge to the approval of the Territory’s largest ever groundwater licence. Our client, the Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC), launched judicial review proceedings in the NT Supreme Court in February 2022 to challenge the decision by the […]
Kirsty Ruddock is the Managing Lawyer for EDO’s Safe Climate Corporate & Commercial team. Kirsty is an experienced climate lawyer and litigator, having been involved in representing and advising clients on a range of environmental law issues. Kirsty and her team work with clients to tackle climate greenwashing and use corporate and consumer law to […]
It’s been 50 years since the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment (the right to a healthy environment) was recognised in the Stockholm Declaration. In July 2022, the right to a healthy environment became universally recognised as a human right. Yet Australia remains one of only 37 of 193 UN Member States which […]
Sydney, 25 August, 2022: Today, the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) filed significant new and more detailed allegations against Santos over alleged greenwashing. Last year the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) commenced proceedings in the Federal Court alleging that Santos Ltd has breached the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and the Australian Consumer Law […]
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