Tag: EPBC Act
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National cabinet just agreed to big changes to environment law. Here’s why the process shouldn’t be rushed
Megan C Evans, UNSW and Peter Burnett, Australian National University Federal and state governments on Friday resolved to streamline environment approvals and fast-track 15 major projects to help stimulate Australia’s pandemic-stricken economy. The move follows the release this week of Professor Graeme Samuel’s preliminary review of the law, the 20-year-old Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation…
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The legal and institutional dimensions of biodiversity offsetting
This is Part 5 of a series of posts outlining the research journey of my PhD so far. Read the previous entries: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 Over two days in January 2015, fifteen academics and professionals from law, economics, business, ecology and policy came together to discuss biodiversity offsetting – but…
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Environmental offset policy and bridging the science-policy divide
The latest issue of Decision Point magazine features a brief article outlining some the “co-benefits” that have been generated through the collaboration between the Department of the Environment and researchers from the Environmental Decisions Group which resulted in EPBC Act environmental offsets assessment guide. I’ve previously blogged about this collaboration here, but as mentioned in…
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Findings tabled from the Senate Inquiry into Environmental Offsets
A report into the recent Senate inquiry into environmental offsets has now been tabled – you can download the full report here. The inquiry was set up earlier in the year by the Australian Greens with the support of the Labor Party, and generated a fair bit of media at the time (here, here and here). I’m…
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Biodiversity offsets in practice: the case of the Striped Legless Lizard
Last week I joined a field trip run as part of the Biodiversity Conservation (ENVS3039) course at the ANU. The students have been introduced to the concept of biodiversity offsetting during lectures, but now they can put that knowledge into practice. As part of their assessment, the students were asked to develop a biodiversity offset proposal to compensate…
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Calculating the benefits of conservation actions
In the new issue of Decision Point magazine, Martine Maron from UQ has penned an article on a collaboration I was involved with between researchers in the NERP Environmental Decisions Hub, and the Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (DSEWPaC) staff. ………………………………………………………………………………… It’s projected that nearly a billion hectares of terrestrial ecosystems will…
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