Building stadiums with 'living roofs', subsidising public transport and encouraging fans to watch sport together at the pub are among the measures the sport sector can take to tackle climate change, says chief scientist Professor Penny Sackett.
A company that this month won consent for a proposed 201-home project on condition that it dismantle and move houses if coastal erosion encroaches has potentially had its plans thrown into disarray by a court ruling that it unlawfully cleared the site and an order to remediate it.
A Victorian tribunal has rejected a proposal to sub-divide and build on a coastal site because of its vulnerability to future sea level rise, saying 'a line in the sand' must be drawn.
A parliamentary inquiry into the coastal zone and climate change calls for reviews by the Australian Law Reform Commission and the Productivity Commission and recommends that COAG develop an intergovernmental agreement.
