As an overhauled rulebook for commercial forestry comes into force, there are concerns it could weaken safeguards as climate risks intensify.
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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.
New Zealand’s plants and animals are globally unique and underpin primary production and tourism. The government’s fast-tracking proposal threatens to erode the natural capital the economy relies on.
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.
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.
First Nations people should have a real say in decisions affecting them and their Country. Here, we look at how two current policy-making efforts measure up.
The path of Plibersek’s big agenda stretches far beyond the one-term political horizon – and it’s fraught with dangers.
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Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Science, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Atlantic Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Law, The University of Melbourne
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CEO of Aboriginal Carbon Foundation, Indigenous Knowledge
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Ecology, University of Otago
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Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, School of Business, UNSW
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Charles Darwin University
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Distinguished Professor, James Cook University