CANBERRA, 27 NOV 2025 — Greenpeace has welcomed the settlement struck by Labor and the Greens as we speak on EPBC Act reforms, which secures new nature and forest protections, however says there stays main work to be executed to halt the extreme local weather impacts on nature from coal and fuel tasks.
David Ritter, CEO at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, stated:
“The settlement introduced as we speak secures a big enchancment on the damaged legal guidelines that for too lengthy didn’t ship credible environmental safety. There shall be bushes that may stand, wildlife that may survive and ecosystems that will flourish once more due to this.
“These reforms will take away exemptions which have allowed the unchecked bulldozing of Australia’s forests. Australia is a worldwide deforestation hotspot and it is a huge and necessary step ahead in ending this rampant destruction. The Albanese Authorities now has the chance to mannequin forest safety to the world by ending and reversing deforestation by 2030, a promise Australia made in 2022 as a part of world local weather talks in Glasgow.
“Eradicating the danger of fast-tracking coal and fuel tasks can also be welcome. However the huge sting within the tail is that the laws nonetheless fails to handle the big local weather hurt to nature from these kinds of tasks. It nonetheless leaves the door open for the heedless growth of coal and fuel—main drivers of worsening bushfires, floods, and different local weather disasters that destroy ecosystems and hurt species.
“There shall be plenty of work to do to make sure these revised legal guidelines shield and restore nature. This consists of making the proposed nationwide environmental requirements as sturdy as potential, funding and establishing the EPA to succeed, and guaranteeing the biodiversity offset system shouldn’t be abused by huge builders. Greenpeace additionally maintains the agency place that the Federal Authorities must be the ultimate decision-maker on mission approvals.
“Environmental safety legal guidelines have one job: to guard the atmosphere. Vital progress on nature safety signalled within the settlement as we speak may be very welcome, however should be adopted up by sturdy implementation and ending the growth of fossil fuels.”
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