Statement on Pareto data breach

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.  

The same corporations driving the cost-of-living crisis are driving the climate crisis. Australian gas sent offshore returns home as bushfires, heatwaves, floods and cyclones.

Planned ‘protection statements’ for five threatened species are a welcome but modest step, while much more is needed to protect and recover threatened species in next month’s federal budget.

Conservationists and Traditional Owners are rallying outside today’s annual general meeting of gas giant Woodside in Perth.

As gas giant Santos holds its annual general meeting in Adelaide, new polling shows nearly three in four South Australians believe gas companies should be made to pay for environmental damage they cause.

This terrible oil refinery fire, which is now spewing toxic smoke into Geelong and surrounds, is another reminder that fossil fuels are risky, polluting and dangerous.

New RepuTex modelling, commissioned by the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Climate Council, shows new highly polluting coal and gas projects are an escalating risk to the Safeguard Mechanism. 

The Australian gas export industry is scrambling to keep operations open as category four Cyclone Narelle batters the WA coast.

ACF has welcomed a landmark Senate report into climate disinformation, warning lies are already harming communities and demanding tougher action to stop falsehoods derailing climate progress. 

We urge the Albanese government, in partnership with States and Territories, to impose strict, measurable obligations on the tech titans to make sure they do their share, consult properly and don’t drain our resources or derail the clean energy transition.

The federal government should immediately place a 25% levy on all Australian gas exports.

The NSW government will not permit new coal mines and exploration projects (but will still consider coal mine extensions) under a revised framework for the coal industry.

Bulldozing for beef is continuing – despite the passage of new environment laws late last that tighten loopholes relating to land clearing by the agricultural sector.

ACF has called on the federal government to immediately place a 25% war profits tax on all Australian gas exports. 

With the Queensland government having approved the expansion and extension of Glencore’s Hail Creek open cut coal mine, it’s up to the Albanese government to step in to halt the detonation of this carbon bomb.