Australia is negotiating the high bar of environmental destruction.
"New environment laws could help or harm nature depending on the minister. Australia's national environment law has failed to stop the loss of unique ecosystems, plants and animals over the past 25 years." (236 years?)
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/new-environment-laws-could-help-or-hinder-nature/105963168
#EPBCAct #Biodiversity #climate #extinction #harm #law #exemptions #extractivism
"Labor’s nature laws have ‘gigantic loopholes you could drive a heavy hauler through’."
"The laws to overhaul the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act are scheduled for debate on Tuesday, with the government planning to rush them through the lower house this week."
"The laws to overhaul the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act are scheduled for debate on Tuesday, with the government planning to rush them through the lower house this week."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/nov/03/australia-politics-live-nationals-net-zero-liberals-labor-bulk-billing-optus-sussan-ley-anthony-albanese-question-time
#biosphere #pollution #FossilFuels #climate #ExtremeHeat #Biodiversity #deforestation #harm #EPBCAct #exemptions #PayToDestroy #law #limits
Australia's environmental record.
"A leading researcher has described the extinction of the Christmas Island shrew as "another stain" on Australia's environmental record. A total of 39 native mammals have been declared extinct in Australia since colonisation."
"That rate of loss of mammal species is far more than any other country in the world,"
Professor Woinarski said. >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/christmas-island-shrew-declared-extinct/105949448
#extinction #Australia #biodiversity #NativeFauna #EPBCAct
The nature reform bill: “riddled with loopholes that would enable rampant deforestation and species extinctions to continue at pace”.
"Ken Henry warns Labor’s nature laws ‘are worthless’ unless minister tightens ‘national interest’ exemptions. Every project developer is absolutely convinced that their project is in the national interest... Henry said the vague drafting of the “national interest” exemption and the failure to close loopholes for native forest logging and land clearing were problems that needed to be fixed."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/30/ken-henry-warns-labors-nature-laws-are-worthless-unless-minister-tightens-national-interest-exemptions
Labor’s environmental law overhaul: a little progress and a lot of compromise
https://theconversation.com/labors-environmental-law-overhaul-a-little-progress-and-a-lot-of-compromise-268198
#EPBCAct #exemptions #NationalInterest #deforestation #LandClearing #FastTrackApprovals #NativeForests #LoggingImpacts #climate
New national environmental standards ?
"ACF warns weak nature laws risk repeating decades of destruction. As it stands, this draft bill has too many loopholes that benefit big polluters and bulldozers. This is the biggest nature law reform in a generation, and Parliament has to get it right.”
" ACF is calling on the government to ensure the reforms:
Close loopholes that allow deforestation and habitat destruction to continue .
Establish an independent regulator to enforce the rules without political interference .
Set clear national standards to protect and restore nature, and
Require decision-makers to consider climate harm in every decision. "
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https://www.acf.org.au/news/acf-warns-weak-nature-laws-risk-repeating-decades-of-destruction
#biodiversity #EPBCAct #law #nature #NativeForests #LoggingImpacts #exemption #NationalInterest #climate #harm #FossilFuels #deforestation #mining #extractivism #LandClearing
Biodiversity is in catastrophic decline. Here are three ways to ensure Australia’s conservation law actually works
"The commonwealth bureaucracy has failed to enforce the existing laws."
"The exemption for native forest logging should have been phased out. Instead, it was extended."
"The highest priority for the reforms must be to ensure land-clearing is properly regulated."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/28/australia-conservation-law-biodiversity-decline
#biodiversity #NativeForests #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #EPBCAct #extractivism #deforestation #LandClearing #conservation #regulation
The so called "Environment Protection Reform Bill."
Protecting Australia's extraordinary wildlife ?
"The proposed changes to the EPBC Act do not deal with its fundamental problem: despite its name, the law does not prioritise protecting the environment. Its principle role is to allow projects – including fossil fuel developments – to go ahead, with some conditions attached to limit environmental damage."
"Native forest logging overseen by the states has been effectively exempt, despite a long list of legal cases in which it was found to have breached the laws. Forest destruction on private land for agriculture – a major driver of biodiversity loss across vast areas of western New South Wales and Queensland, and the Northern Territory – has rarely been assessed."
"There is little sign the legislation will tackle the huge problem of deforestation. Millions of hectares have been cleared without federal oversight, mostly for industrial farming. The state of the environment report cited evidence that 93% of the threatened species habitat cleared between 2000 and 2017 was not referred for assessment under national law. One hundred scientists wrote to Albanese this week calling for this to be urgently addressed."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/25/as-the-coalition-shows-its-colours-on-nature-labor-faces-a-question-will-it-really-protect-australias-wildlife
#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #EPBCAct #CoalGas #deforestation #acceleration #offsets #NSWLogging
The right to know about climate breakdown
"The Trump administration cut a NOAA program that had tracked weather events that caused at least $1 billion in damage. A nonprofit organization has redeveloped the database." >>
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/climate-change-data-costliest-6-months-weather-disasters-noaa-rcna238752
They're hiding the truth. We're fighting back.
https://www.climate.us/
U.S. Climate Collection: Informing Assessment of Risks and Solutions
https://usclimatecollection.org/
'Climate trigger' formally ruled out of Australian environment law >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-22/climate-trigger-formally-ruled-out-of-environment-laws/105919546
#climate #ClimateBreakdown #FossilFuels #extractivism #harm #science #DB #biodiversity #law #RightToKnow #DIYData #climate #EPBCAct
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