ALCA’s submission seeks the delivery of a range of key policy initiatives through 2023-24 Federal Budget, including dedicated funding to deliver the Government’s commitment to protect 30% of Australia’s lands and 30% of Australia’s seas by 2030.
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The NSW Government has an opportunity to strengthen its protection of native vegetation and biodiversity, noting that the clearance of remnant vegetation remains a major driver of biodiversity loss in Australia.
The accelerating transition to widespread renewable energy needs to be able to demonstrate that it is green in definition and in practice.
An integrated and environmentally sensitive approach to renewable energy alongside nature is achievable.
At its core, the renewable energy transition needs to be ‘nature positive’.
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.
In the forests of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area of Far North Queensland (FNQ), one of Australia’s unique animals, the Lemuroid Ringtail Possum, is disappearing so quickly that it has jumped from being a species of Least Concern to being classified as Critically Endangered.
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The release of a Commonwealth response to the Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 sets a positive tone but leaves much of the detail on future reform yet to be determined.
Heritage Agreements are the cornerstone of private land conservation in South Australia and provide critical protection for many of the state’s native species.
The SA Government has an important opportunity to strengthen their support for Heritage Agreements – and the landholders that manage them – to deliver better outcomes for South Australian biodiversity.
ALCA recommends that the sustainability of environmental protection outcomes should be prioritised as the foundation of the Basin’s Strategic Plan, and the Basin’s governance arrangements reviewed prior to its implementation.
ALCA’s submission highlights three key themes:
• We must prevent environmental collapse if we wish to safeguard our productivity and avoid social and economic regression.
• Investment in the green economy – including nature-based solutions to climate change – is an opportunity to grow our sustainable economic output and productivity.
• Ensure that the operating environment facing nature sector employers is, at the very least, agnostic rather than discriminatory.
