Independent review findings into the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 are an opportunity for the NSW Government to recognise the increasingly important value of protecting its remaining biodiversity.
ALCA welcomes the environmental indicators announced in the national wellbeing budget framework.
Despite the worsening nature crisis and its increasing social and economic impacts,
Australia’s legacy of structural underfunding for on-ground nature conservation has largely continued.
ALCA welcomes the introduction of the Nature Repair Market Bill to Parliament, stressing the importance of the Government’s role in building confidence in the market by outlining their biodiversity investment strategy as well as being a cornerstone investor.
ALCA is not supportive of the market being used to facilitate environmental offsets.
After four years of drawn-out development and now a marathon three weeks of detailed and occasionally tense negotiations, a global biodiversity agenda has finally been adopted at the COP15 summit in Montreal.
Minister for Environment Tanya Plibersek’s announcement that Australia will host a Global Nature Positive Summit has been welcomed by the private land conservation sector.
