After an inquiry into her previous EPBC climate trigger Bill was repeatedly delayed and then lapsed, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young will re-introduce a version of the Bill today.
The voluntary market for biodiversity credits could grow to be as important as the carbon credits market, according to Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.
Companies shouldn't be allowed to use biodiversity offsets just because it's their cheapest option, and should disclose their carbon abatement strategies in EPBC referrals, Professor Graeme Samuel said today.
A Queensland environment group is relying on the EPBC Act's reconsideration provisions to ask for a re-evaluation of 19 major projects, because of their climate impacts.
A new federal strategy that will pick 100 threatened species for special intervention has been challenged by environment groups, with WWF calling for a broader 'zero extinctions' approach.
Environmentalists have warned industry not to use native timber sourced from VicForests, as they prepare to go to the High Court over a Federal Court decision today in favour of the logging agency.
The government's own advisory body on threatened species has doubts about a government EPBC Bill, and Australia's peak organisation for environmental lawyers says it is too flawed to pass.
It will be difficult to design national standards that can simultaneously ensure laws, policies and individual projects lead to better conservation results, law firm Clayton Utz has cautioned.