An end to extinctions. An environmental cop on the beat. Labor promised a great deal on the environment. But yesterday, they backed away from the main challenge.
L’expertise universitaire, l’exigence journalistique
Articles sur EPBC Act
Affichage de 1 à 20 de 61 articles
Australia committed to restore 30% of degraded ecosystems by 2030 when we signed the global biodiversity framework. But what does that really mean? It’s open to interpretation. So let’s be ambitious.
Blink and you’ll miss it. The kowari is a charismatic marsupial carnivore that needs our help.
Nature, everyone agrees, is in trouble. But can Australia’s new market-based mechanism help?
A group of prominent environmental scientists devised this list of 5 things we must see in Australia’s new national environmental laws, if we are to avoid calamity and hasten recovery.
Australia has a once-in-a-decade opportunity to fix environmental law. A new Wentworth Group report says the cumulative impacts from multiple projects must be considered.
Australia’s environment does not have sufficient legal protection from climate change, as outlined in a new report from the Climate Council Australia.
The Darwin woodland is home to endangered species and important for the Larrakia people. The development approval requires habitat offsets – yet the minister herself has publicly doubted offsets work.
Hungry for development and industry investment, the Northern Territory government is putting one of the world’s last intact tropical ecosystems at risk. Scientists are calling for better protections.
Two states will soon end logging of native forests, but what about the other states? The federal government has powers to intervene but also faces obstacles to nationwide protection of these forests.
It’s time we question our national priorities, and start funding the nature that sustains us.
Ever wondered what it takes to get on the threatened species list? This explainer demystifies the rigorous process, using the cute little predator that stores energy in its tail as an example.
Up to now we have had fine-sounding but ultimately ineffectual words. New National Environmental Standards hold the key to finally delivering effective protection for the environment.
The mine was not refused on climate change grounds. So without legal reform, other fossil fuel projects may still go ahead.
The path of Plibersek’s big agenda stretches far beyond the one-term political horizon – and it’s fraught with dangers.
Getting that detail right could mean the difference between a species surviving, or disappearing forever.
Australia cannot get its environmental act together. We don’t even have the information we need to fix environmental problems. But there is a better way.
Under the Greens’ proposal, future projects, such as a new mine or high emissions industrial plant, would be assessed on the climate harms they’d potentially cause.
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek acknowledges “it’s time to change” after the State of the Environment report revealed a bleak picture of Australia’s natural places. In a speech on Tuesday…
The minister will be forced to either confirm or revoke decisions made by her predecessor that 19 coal and gas projects aren’t likely to harm Australia’s protected species and places.
Les contributeurs les plus fréquents
-
Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University
-
Professor in Conservation Science, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
-
Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law and Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
-
Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
-
Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning, Leader, Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group (ICON Science), RMIT University
-
Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
-
Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, UNSW Sydney
-
Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Science, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
-
Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
-
Lecturer, The University of Queensland
-
Adjunct Asssociate Professor, James Cook University
-
Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
