Australia can’t offset its way out of Browse gas bomb

More than 70,000 people have backed ACF’s request for Environment Minister Murray Watt to consider the climate impacts from Woodside’s proposed Browse gas project at Scott Reef.

NSW government data shows land clearing, primarily for agriculture, has again increased across the state, with the Australian Conservation Foundation condemning it as a 'broken promise' from the Minns government. 

ACF’s challenge to Environment Minister Murray Watt’s decision to approve Woodside’s NW Shelf gas hub out to 2070 and not assess harm caused by the project’s climate pollution is in the Federal Court. 

It will be important the AI legislation being prepared by the government includes a requirement that the energy powering data centres be renewable and additional.

Communities want better protection for their local environment, their water resources and the climate, not fast-tracked approvals for tech giants.

As the new National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA) begins its work from today, the Australian Conservation Foundation has urged it to use its powers and enforce the rules.

The Australian Conservation Foundation has called for a Senate inquiry into the fossil fuel industry’s engagement with children and young people after an investigation revealed industry programs could be reaching millions of Australian children.

For the first time in eight years, the highly controversial WA Browse gas project is open to public comment after Environment Minister Murray Watt accepted ACF’s reconsideration request as valid.  

The Australian Conservation Foundation has joined calls for the Albanese government to urgently set up a $200m emergency fund to protect Australian wildlife from the bird flu outbreak, which has reached the Australian mainland.

ACF statement in response to news the Commonwealth and Tasmanian governments are in discussions to develop a bilateral agreement under the national nature law to allow native forest logging to continue after the Regional Forest Agreements exemption ends in July 2027.

In an Australian first, the Federal Court has accepted the application by a UN Special Rapporteur to make submissions in the Australian Conservation Foundation’s legal challenges to the extension of Woodside’s controversial North West Shelf gas hub.

The budget contains at least seven times more spending on initiatives that damage nature and the climate than it allocates to climate and nature protection.

Despite the company's latest PR push, Woodside’s Browse proposal is an economic and environmental disaster that should be stopped in its tracks.

With the federal budget under a week away, the Australian Conservation Foundation has highlighted five things the government should spend money on to protect nature and the climate – and five moves that would save a heap of public money.

As now proposed, the legal test for consistency with the standard will be met if a developer merely confirms they complied with some principles and followed certain processes. There’s no requirement for these processes to actually deliver the outcomes and objectives expressed in the standard.