International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
released 2 December 2020
The report builds on previous reports from 2014 and 2017 to track whether the conservation of the world’s 252 natural World Heritage sites is sufficient to protect them in the long term. It finds that climate change has overtaken invasive species as the top threat to natural World Heritage.
The Victoria Energy Policy Centre and Victoria University
released 9 December 2020
This report responds to a request from the Australian Conservation Foundation to undertake a
desk-top review of the cost of carbon capture and storage (CCS) applied to electricity generation
in Australia.
Infrastructure Victoria
released 9 December 2020
The draft strategy takes an integrated, cross‐sectoral view of infrastructure planning, making 95 draft recommendations to the Victorian Government across both metropolitan and regional Victoria.
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
released 7 December 2020
The Discussion Paper summarises a broad range of issues and options that can be considered in the region. The Discussion Paper aims to stimulate conversation and facilitate online community involvement and ownership by Melburnians.
Grattan Institute
released 6 December 2020
This report shows how the health sector can better prepare for the
effects of climate change, and how it should lead by reducing its own
carbon and environmental footprint.
Australian Farm Institute
released 1 December 2020
This briefing paper asks what impact a gas-led recovery might have on the protection of productive agricultural land, the social capital of farming communities, and our long-term food and water security. The paper also provides maps of petroleum exploration licence (PEL) areas in Australia overlaid on the Great Artesian Basin and on the country’s primary agricultural activities, highlighting regions where these intersect.
Climate Council
released 3 December 2020
The report explores the Government’s pledge to the gas industry and uncovers some unsavoury truths: that emissions from gas are under-reported, that the second biggest user of gas in Australia is the gas industry itself, that the international gas market is in crisis and Australia is dangerously exposed to job losses and price volatility.