The Morrison government has proposed scrapping recovery plans for almost 200 endangered species and habitats including the Tasmanian devil, the whale shark and the endangered glossy-black cockatoo populations on Kangaroo Island, one of the worst-affected areas in the 2019-20 bushfires. Environment groups have decried the move as a backward stepContinue Reading
Dr. Yifat Aran is a Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and Haifa University Assistant Professor in Law. She received her JSD from Stanford Law School, where her thesis focused on equity-based compensation in Silicon Valley startups. It’s difficult to figure out who owns a company in most cases. Because mostContinue Reading
The Coalition government decided a controversial apartment complex and marina proposed for Queensland’s Moreton Bay should proceed to the next stage of the assessment process, despite legal advice from the federal attorney general’s department warning it was unacceptable because of the risk it posed to internationally listed wetlands. The governmentContinue Reading
To strengthen the commitment of corporate India towards preserving vital coastal ecosystems and to mark the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem, Godrej & Boyce (the flagship company of the Godrej Group) announced the launch of the India Mangroves Coalition, in association with CII’s Centre ofContinue Reading
Australia’s global lobbying offensive to keep the Great Barrier Reef off the world heritage “in danger” list has secured support from at least nine of the 21-member committee that will make the decision, according to a diplomatic email seen by Guardian Australia. Australia’s Paris-based ambassador to Unesco, Megan Anderson, saidContinue Reading
In early July, President Biden signed the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy that targets ocean shipping lines and railroads in part. The order notes the lack of competition in the telecommunications and the financial services sectors in part because of industry consolidation. “Similarly, the global container shipping industryContinue Reading
Washington, D.C. — The Biden-Harris administration has put an unprecedented focus on environmental justice by directing all federal agencies to improve justice and strive to end environmental racism, by initiating Justice40 to invest in disadvantaged communities and by establishing the first White House environmental justice panel to advise the administrationContinue Reading
PARIS, July 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — With a common vision of a world where no plastic waste ends up in nature – land or sea – The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Coalition of Action on Plastic Waste today announces the latest critical step made by Coalition members to transform theContinue Reading
The Coalition handed three grants for fracking in the Beetaloo Basin to a political donor and Liberal-linked company, which had earlier lobbied federal ministers for information on the funding scheme. On Wednesday, resources minister Keith Pitt announced that Imperial Oil and Gas, a subsidiary of Empire Energy, would receive $21mContinue Reading
Rural Access Coalition brings together Social Enterprises with strong rural supply chains, robust digital market infrastructure, and an extensive last mile network of trusted entrepreneurs The mission is to raise $8 mn to support 1 mn rural families across 4 states of India namely Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and KarnatakaContinue Reading
