Australia: Clean Air / Pollution

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Environmental law articles, insights, podcasts, videos and webinars from expert sources across the legal world. Explore insights covering topics such as clean air/pollution, climate change, environmental law and waste management.

Recent tax incentives fuelling Australia's clean energy future

Both incentives were introduced in the Future Made in Australia (Production Tax Credits and Other Measures) Bill 2024.

Australia Environment

HR

Holding Redlich

Australian carbon markets – priorities for reform

Key priorities to build a fluid carbon market that can support Australia's net-zero transition.

Australia Environment

HR

Holding Redlich

Changes to the infrastructure provisions in the Planning Act 2016 effective from 30 June 2025

Comparable changes have simultaneously been made to the South-East Queensland Water (Distribution and Retail Restructuring) Act 2009.

Australia Environment

HR

Holding Redlich

Behind the green curtain: Understanding and mitigating greenwashing risks

The enforcement wave and what companies and directors need to know to stay compliant.

Australia Environment

PA

Piper Alderman

Holman Webb Lawyers helps to secure protection of the Great Artesian Basin

Australia Environment

HW

Holman Webb Lawyers

GREENWASHING: IT'S NOT ALL GLAD

Australia Commercial

PP

Pointon Partners

Australia's evolving ESG regulatory landscape: managing the legal risks

Australia Commercial

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

It's GO Time – latest updates on Australia's Guarantee of Origin scheme

Australia Environment

HR

Holding Redlich

Powering the future: A review of the NSW Renewable Fuel Scheme

Australia Environment

HR

Holding Redlich

Takeaways from the Global Nature Positive Summit

Australia Environment

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

The Price of Greenwashing: 12.9M reasons to get environmental claims right

Australia Environment

PA

Piper Alderman

The expansion of corporate work health and safety and environmental enforcement in Australia

Australia Environment

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Considering the impact of Australia's net zero reform agenda on property and infrastructure project delivery

Australia Environment

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Australia second in cleantech growth – tips for in-house counsel

Australia Energy

SF

Spruson & Ferguson

It depends – Can I make an in-specie contribution to my self-managed superfund?

Australia Employment

CG

Cooper Grace Ward

Aboriginal Death in Police Custody Alice Springs

Australia Criminal

OC

O'Brien Criminal & Civil Solicitors

It depends – Trust vesting

Australia Commercial

CG

Cooper Grace Ward

Block earner triumphs in ASIC appeal

Australia Technology

PA

Piper Alderman

Demystifying Australia's National Anti-Corruption Commission (Video)

Australia Criminal

AM

Alvarez & Marsal

June 2024 ESG Policy Update—Australia

On 28 May 2024, Australia and the European Union (EU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a bilateral partnership to cooperate on sustainable critical and strategic minerals.

Australia Environment

KG

K&L Gates LLP

EU ETS explained: The EU's green shipping initiative and its impact on Australian industry

What Directive (EU) 2023/959 and Regulation (EU) 2023/957 mean for Australian participants in European shipping markets.

Australia Transport

HR

Holding Redlich

The ACCU scheme: Fuelling carbon reduction in Australia

A brief look at the regulation of the ACCU (Australian Carbon Credit Union) scheme.

Australia Environment

HR

Holding Redlich

Tougher penalties for environmental crime now in force in NSW

Sweeping reforms are designed to improve the protection of human health, the environment and the community.

Australia Environment

S

Stacks Law Firm

NSW Doubles Penalties For Environmental Crime In Major Upheaval Of Environmental Law

Australia Environment

HS

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

The top 5 things to know about dust disease claims in NSW

Australia Employment

CO

Carroll & O'Dea

NSW dust disease claims – How can I seek compensation for my injury? Part 2

Australia Employment

CO

Carroll & O'Dea

NSW dust disease claims – How can I seek compensation for my injury? Part 1

Australia Employment

CO

Carroll & O'Dea

Essential ESG: Episode 16 – The intersection between human rights, climate change and decarbonisation

Australia Environment

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Growing green: navigating the path to net zero in agribusiness

Australia Environment

CG

Cooper Grace Ward

Australia's carbon credit scheme — demand and interest grows

Australia Environment

MC

McMahon Clarke

Investment treaties and the energy transition: challenges and opportunities

Australia International

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Final Safeguard Mechanism reforms set to commence: outlining the impact on covered facilities

Australia Environment

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Silica – The ‘new asbestos', or a new wave of an ‘old' dust disease?

Australia Employment

CO

Carroll & O'Dea

Australia's carbon credit scheme — demand and interest grows

The creation and acquisition of carbon credits is Australia's key to achieving targets for greenhouse gas emissions.

Australia Environment

MC

McMahon Clarke

Investment treaties and the energy transition: challenges and opportunities

Australia, like many other countries, must encourage foreign investment to achieve its clean energy transition goals.

Australia International

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Final Safeguard Mechanism reforms set to commence: outlining the impact on covered facilities

Discusses key differences between the final Safeguard Mechanism amendments and earlier proposals.

Australia Environment

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Silica – The ‘new asbestos', or a new wave of an ‘old' dust disease?

The high number of asbestos related cases will soon be eclipsed by cases associated with silica related illnesses.

Australia Employment

CO

Carroll & O'Dea

Who is liable for falling space junk?

Australia Environment

BP

Bartier Perry

The $7 trillion question: A net zero emissions economy by 2050

The 2050 de-carbonisation target is an unprecedented infrastructure plan, and one that will impact every Australian.

Australia Environment

K

KordaMentha

Australian Government ramps up climate reforms: Safeguard Mechanism overhaul begins with new carbon credits

The Safeguard Mechanism is a mandatory decarbonisation framework to reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.

Australia Environment

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

New carbon credits Code of Practice suggests more robust standards for voluntary markets

Corporations are under pressure to set public targets for the net reduction of carbon produced by their operations.

Australia Environment

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Independent Planning Commission sets new greenhouse gas performance measures in approval for Narrabri Mine extension

The approval confirms that greenhouse gas emissions remain a key area of focus throughout the planning assessment process.

Australia Environment

MR

McCullough Robertson

The future of large-scale Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) projects in Australia

Australia Environment

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

New exit policy for carbon contracts

Australia Environment

CG

Cooper Grace Ward

What is the future for Fuel Tax Credits after COP 26?

MA

Moore Australia

Can Australia transition to a low-carbon economy?

Australia Environment

HR

Holding Redlich

Scope 3 emissions and cumulative impacts clarified in Court dismissal of challenge to Santos Narrabri Gas Project

Australia Environment

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Scope 3 emissions: a regulatory cloud soon to lift?

Australia Environment

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Trajectory for low energy buildings update: NCC 2025, New NABERS tools and more

Australia Real Estate

PA

Piper Alderman

Inside Track: Planning, Environment & Sustainability - In the media, In practice and courts, Cases and Legislation

Australia Real Estate

HR

Holding Redlich

Judge determines law to be illogical, unreasonable and inconsistent in dust disease claim by stonemason

Australia Litigation

HP

Hall Payne Lawyers

New environmental protection reforms in Victoria and the national state of play: Part two

Australia Environment

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

New environmental protection reforms in Victoria and the national state of play: Part one

Australia Environment

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Inside Track: Planning, Environment & Sustainability - In the media, In practice and courts, Cases and Legislation

Australia Real Estate

HR

Holding Redlich

What are dust diseases? – Article #1

Australia Litigation

CO

Carroll & O'Dea

ICares Dust Diseases Care or Dust Diseases Authority (DDA) – Article #2

Australia Litigation

CO

Carroll & O'Dea

NSW Dust Diseases Tribunal (DDT) – Article #3: Claiming damages

Australia Litigation

CO

Carroll & O'Dea

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