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Release of the Quarterly Update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory: March 2014
Release of the Quarterly Update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory: March 2014
September Climate Summit and two SENG Qld events in October
National Newsletter - Special Edition
25th Anniversary Landcare Grants now open
Queensland East Coast Inshore Fin Fish Fishery
Commonwealth Marine Reserves Review - Website launched
Draft Conservation advice for the Central Hunter Valley eucalypt forest and woodland complex
Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan
Richard Branson failed to deliver on $3bn climate change pledge
New book by Naomi Klein claims that Virgin founder gave less than a tenth of cash promised to develop low carbon fuel
Naomi Klein: the hypocrisy behind the big business climate change battle
Richard Branson has failed to deliver on his much-vaunted pledge to spend $3bn (£1.8bn) over a decade to develop a low carbon fuel.
Seven years into the pledge, Branson has paid out only a small fraction of the promised money – “well under $300m” – according to a new book by the writer and activist, Naomi Klein.
Continue reading...Cost Recovery Implementation Statement
The Finalised Priority Assessment List has now been published
Public consultation: draft assessment bilateral agreement between the Commonwealth and Victoria
BP's reckless conduct caused Deepwater Horizon oil spill, judge rules
Judge’s ruling that BP bears 67% of blame for Deepwater Horizon disaster could nearly quadruple amount of civil penalties
BP bears the majority of responsibility among the companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a federal judge ruled Thursday, citing the energy giant’s reckless conduct over the disaster in a ruling that exposes it to billions of dollars in penalties.
BP plc already has agreed to pay billions of dollars in criminal fines and compensation to people and businesses affected by the disaster, the worst-ever US oil spill. But US district Judge Carl Barbier’s ruling could nearly quadruple what the London-based company has to pay in civil fines for polluting the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 spill.
Continue reading...Reserves and parks not enough to protect nature – David Attenborough
Broadcaster calls for radical new approach to conservation, urging people to use all spaces from gardens to roadside verges to help wildlife
Nature reserves and national parks are not enough to prevent a catastrophic decline in nature, David Attenborough has told politicians, business leaders and conservationists, saying that every space in Britain from suburban gardens to road verges must be used to help wildlife.
Britain’s leading commentator on wildlife called for a radical new approach to conservation which did not bemoan the past but embraced the changes brought by climate change and a rapidly growing human population.
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