South Australia's EPA will use its environmental licensing powers to ensure businesses properly consider climate risks, says the state government's new five-year climate action plan.
Australia needs a permanent resilience and recovery agency, and land-use planning must take better account of flooding and bushfire risks, according to the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements.
Warren Entsch, the Morrison government's envoy for the Great Barrier Reef, is pushing key Coalition Ministers to take stronger action on climate change.
The Productivity Commission will examine whether states and territories are adequately considering climate change in their water planning, as part of a new inquiry.
The Victorian government today released a coastal policy that says intervenionist responses to climate risks will increasingly be required, and will next year revise its sea-level rise planning benchmark.
Great Barrier Reef envoy Warren Entsch will seek a national ban on nearly all single-use plastics, and has also warned climate change is an 'existential threat' to the Reef.
Environment ministers today agreed to phase in waste export bans from 1 July 2020 and made commitments on climate change, environmental assessments, and battery recycling.