It said the company had worked hard to meet stakeholders to ensure the project “would benefit the entire community”.
Guardian Australia has previously reported that Walker Corporation, which has been a major political donor, lobbied the federal government to remove protections from an area of the wetlands as a matter of “urgent national interest”.
In August 2017, the former environment minister, Josh Frydenberg wrote to Steven Miles, who was then the Queensland environment minister, to suggest the two governments create a proposal to delist part of the Moreton Bay Ramsar wetland.
In May of that year, the Ramsar secretariat wrote to the federal government warning that the loss of wetlands for the development would “set a precedent for other developments in future”, not only for Ramsar sites within Australia but “also elsewhere in the world”.
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Non-Regression in International Environmental Law
Non-Regression in International Environmental Law
Non-Regression in International Environmental Law
Human Rights Doctrine and the Promises of Comparative International Law
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The book analyses the emerging concept of non-regression as a novel legal principle of international environmental law. It traces the development of non-regression in the context of international human rights law and provides an examination of the respective jurisprudence under universal and regional human rights instruments. These are then compared to closely-related normative concepts in the framework of international environmental law, including the Paris Climate Change Agreement and biodiversity-related agreements such as the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and t
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Earth Day 2021: 10 Environmental Organisations to Help Save Our Planet Share
In conjunction with Earth Day 2021 on 22 April, we’ll be discussing issues and providing resources for change.
It starts with acknowledging the fact that our planet is dying because of us. It’s our greed and expansionist mindset that is directly the cause of degradation of forests, endangerment of animal species, climate change, and many other serious factors that have brought our planet to the critical stage it stands on today.
But we still have time to make amends and do our part in making this world a better place for everyone. And there are people among us who have taken it upon themselves to fight for a better tomorrow. They know, and we too must understand, that the planet is not yours or mine alone; it belongs to all of us. And, therefore, when it comes to preserving it for ourselves and the future generations, we must join hands RIGHT NOW.