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Delayed environment laws spark calls for urgent government action on water and fracking

The Guardian: Energy

The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, said last year she planned to introduce legislation in 2023 to reform the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act after major reviews found the law was failing and Australian nature was in poor and deteriorating health.

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Green Brexit: Fears rise over 'back-door regression' on environmental standards

Business Green

Key review measures have been stripped from most of the EU green laws transferred onto UK statute books, study suggests. With so much attention on the unfolding coronavirus crisis and its myriad impacts, Brexit has taken more of a back seat in the political theatre in recent months.

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How Patagonia helped save Europe's last wild river - and navigated a path for others to follow

Business Green

The company may be headquartered thousands of miles away in California, but it has been involved in the broader campaign to save the "blue heart of Europe" - the river and biodiversity rich Balkans - being led by a network of local NGOs for more than half a decade. But the picture is much more complicated.

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Video Storytelling: 20 Best Climate Change and Sustainability Documentaries (Plus How To Tell Your Green Story)

Green Business Bureau

Multimedia tools, such as videos, blogs, and podcasts bring narratives to life. This documentary was created in reaction to the Trump administration’s slashing of the laws protecting these public lands. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecological disruption are global threats to humanity. Length: 1 hour 37 minutes.

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Tracing EthicalEvidence in Moral Obligation to Future Generations

The Environmental Blog

The substantial variability of climate change has contributed to detrimental effects in the economic, social, political and environmental sphere that will continue to persist long after we are gone. This dramatic shift can lead to nonlinear loss in biodiversity and human-kind. 19, 22-23, Accessed 2 June 2019. Cochrane, Alisdair.

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WWF shocking report on wildlife, and why the response will be inadequate

Low Impact

Biodiversity” gained traction as an issue in the 1990s, but seems to have slipped off the public’s radar. Wildlife,” on the other hand, seems always to be waiting in the political wings. Wildlifers come from both sides of the political aisle and from all over the ethical map. What is their measure of biodiversity?

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Interview with Brian Czech: the impossibility of a perpetually-growing economy

Low Impact

They prohibited me from even mentioning the conflict between GDP growth and biodiversity conservation. Everybody agrees that there’s a basic trade-off between GDP growth and environmental protection, starting with biodiversity loss. We’re losing biodiversity every step of the way. They break basic laws of physics.