Environmental Justice News

The Nature Conservation Council has expressed grave concerns over the fast-tracking of water engineering projects in the Southern Murray Darling Basin, warning that more interventions in the system will result in less water for the environment overall and authorities picking winners and losers. “The poor track record of water engineering projects means we are very […]

Australia is the worst performing of all developed countries when it comes to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and moving beyond fossil fuels according to a new report from the Climate Council. The report – From Paris to Glasgow – A World on the Move – concludes that Australia is being […]

The failure of Katter’s Reef Regulation Reversal Bill to gain support in a Queensland Parliamentary Committee is good news for our Great Barrier Reef, the Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) says. Members of the Queensland Parliament’s Health and Environment Committee recommended the Bill not be passed. If enacted, the Bill […]

The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) ‘Together We Can’ campaign is reassuring if you are concerned about the climate crisis but feel overwhelmed and powerless and/or if you’ve been told that no one cares and it’s too late anyway. If you have made it onto an ACF mailing list you will […]

The northern hemisphere is in the midst of a summer marked by devastating wildfires, floods, storms and, of course, the ongoing pandemic – none of which are good signs that the IPCC latest report on climate change, due for release on August 9, would hold anything but grim news. The […]

When Centennial Coal cancelled its Angus Place coal mine application last week, five threatened wetlands in the Gardens of Stone were saved and 123 million tonnes of coal was kept safely in the ground. Chris Gambian, CEO of the Nature Conservation Council, says that’s equivalent to two years of NSW’s […]

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee (WHC) has deferred its decision to list the Great Barrier Reef as ‘in danger’ by a year but that doesn’t mean the Federal Government is off the hook according to the Australian Marine Conservation Society. The Society says the Australian Government has six months to report […]

Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) clients Protect Our Water Catchment (POWC) applied to join legal proceedings so they can defend the refusal of a coal mine extension south of Sydney. In February 2021, the New South Wales Independent Planning Commission (IPC) rejected the expansion application by South 32, to extend the […]

Better Futures Forum Australia will be held online over three days from August 17 in preparation for the COP26 in Glasgow in November which has been labelled by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) as the “most important climate meeting ever”. “Global leaders will decide on targets and policies that maintain […]

The Greens party leader, Adam Bandt, says the word Beetalo is going to enter common parlance in a similar way to Adani. “Imagine if I said there was a way that ‘carbon capture and storage’ actually worked and was economically feasible,” Bandt posed in the July edition of the Greens […]