Climate Homicide
Prosecuting Big Oil For Climate Deaths. 'Fossil fuel companies learned decades ago that what they produced, marketed, and sold would generate “globally catastrophic” climate change. Rather than alert the public and curtail their operations, they worked to deceive the public about these harms and to prevent regulation of their lethal conduct' (Paper accepted for publication in the Harvard Environmental Law Review journal) >
Mandatory Climate-Related Financial Disclosure
- Response to Commonwealth Treasury Consultation Paper 'CPD [The Centre for Policy Development] has explored the role the public sector could play as a leader in climate-related financial reporting and the governance and management of climate risks by examining disclosure by different institutions, including financial regulators and public investors' (Centre for Policy Development, Sydney and Melbourne) >
Living Within Planetary Limits
Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries. 'Living within planetary limits requires attention to justice as biophysical boundaries are not inherently just' (Earth Commission) >
The Auvergne Cotton Case
'We’re representing the Environment Centre of the Northern Territory (ECNT) in the NT Supreme Court, where we’ll challenge a decision to let a huge multinational corporation bulldoze over 900 hectares of important savanna woodlands.' (Environmental Justice Australia, Melbourne) >
Challenging Coal Pollution Limits in Court
'We argued, on behalf of Environment Victoria, that the Environment Protection Authority (EPA)’s decisions to vary the licences of the three power stations in the Latrobe Valley were not made lawfully.' (Environmental Justice Australia, Melbourne) >
State of Climate Action 2022
'Change is heading in the right direction at a promising but insufficient speed for six indicators, and in the right direction but well below the required pace for 21. Change in another five indicators is heading in the wrong direction entirely, and data are insufficient to evaluate the remaining eight.' (Climate Analytics, Berlin, Germany and Perth, Australia) >
Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2022
Towards a Zero-emission, Efficient and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector. 'as the 2022 Buildings Global Status Report shows, the sector is not making the deep systemic changes needed to get on the path to this goal' (United Nations Environment Programme, New York) >
Climate Club (Finance)
'Climate Club' proposal by Lord Nicholas Stern and his co-authors for a 'Climate Club' to fund Developing Countries cut their emissions and deal with climate disasters presented to the COP27 Climate Conference. (London School of Economics, UK) >
Serious Climate Action Accountability
Serious Climate Action Demands Real Climate Accountability. 'Addressing the Climate Crisis at scale and at speed requires not only halting the expansion of oil and gas — but also holding governments and companies alike to higher standards of ambition and action in the face of the climate emergency.' (The Center for International Environmental Law, Washington) >
A decade of killings globally
'200 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2021' (Global Witness - The Ecologist, London) >