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We want an urgent overhaul of how our national environmental laws defend watch over ‘planet-wrecking’ fossil gas projects. But will the govt listen?
Wednesday’s Federal Court likelihood in the “Residing Wonders” case highlights how our federal environmental laws are wholly inadequate to address the biggest global environmental threat: climate commerce.
The fundamental Commonwealth environmental act, the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC) requires that all “actions” which would be likely to occupy a fundamental affect on a bunch of so-called “matters of national environmental significance” endure environmental evaluate and require ministerial approval to creep ahead. These safe matters consist of world heritage places, national heritage places, internationally safe wetlands and listed endangered species, amongst others.
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Julia Dehm
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Julia Dehm is a Senior Lecturer at the La Trobe Laws Faculty. Her scholarship addresses world and domestic climate commerce and environmental law, pure resource governance and questions of human rights, economic inequality and social justice.
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