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.
The Annual Report paints a clear picture of the impact that we are delivering for our members, the private land conservation sector, the community and for nature.
ALCA’s supplementary submission provides additional guidance on embedding conservation into the proposed Policy Framework for diversification leases in Western Australia.
Despite the direct and majority contribution of our natural environment to Australia’s social, economic and cultural prosperity, protecting, managing and restoring our deteriorating environment continues to be structurally underfunded.
Our submission reiterates the importance of protecting existing and future investments in the Western Australian conservation estate, as well as providing both certainty and clear pathways for conservation land use to drive investment in conservation.
