Australian Conservation Foundation
With 2010 declared the International Year of Biodiversity, the Australian Conservation Foundation is calling on the Federal Government to rapidly scale up investment for biodiversity and climate change adaptation to over $1 billion a year to address the crisis confronting wildlife.
posted by seamas on January 16, 2010 at 7:10 am · filed under 
Greenpeace
Greenpeace International is supporting 11 members of the US Congress who have written to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urging him to fulfil his 2007 election promise to ban the sale of illegally logged timber imports. The US, one of the world’s largest timber markets, has introduced legislation that will help stop forest destruction by making it a criminal offence to trade in illegal timber, and is asking Australia to do the same.
posted by ruby on January 14, 2010 at 6:15 pm · filed under 
The World Wildlife Fund
The World Wildlife Fund is calling on the Montara Commission of Inquiry to urgently order an audit of all existing oil wells to assure they are complying with regulations designed to protect worker safety and the environment following a deluge of submissions to the Inquiry’s investigation of the August 2009 Montara Oil Spill and subsequent fire. Dr Llewellyn, who led WWF’s research expedition to the oil spill, said that the revelations show failures in both operational practice and in the regulatory and compliance arrangements of the oil and gas industry.
posted by ruby on January 14, 2010 at 6:10 pm · filed under 
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth is calling for biodiversity to be effectively protected following the UN announcement that 2010 will be the International Year of Biodiversity. Friends of the Earth International’s coordinator of the Forest and Biodiversity Programme Isaac Rojas states in a media release that “The 193 countries known as Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity so far failed to significantly reduce the rate at which biodiversity is being lost, despite their 2003 pledge to reduce these rates by 2010.”
posted by ruby on January 14, 2010 at 6:04 pm · filed under 
The Guardian
Brazil, China, South Africa and India will be meeting in New Delhi on January 24, one month after the end of the Copenhagen climate summit. While no formal agenda has been announced, it is expected that the four countries, who helped broker the unpopular ‘Copenhagen Accord’ with the USA, will be defining common positions on climate aid and emissions reductions, and strategising on how to get other countries to agree to sign the Accord. Fewer than 30 of the 192 UNFCCC countries have indicated they will sign so far. Many are said to be deeply unhappy with the amount of climate aid pledged and the decision not to make deeper emissions cuts.
posted by ruby on January 14, 2010 at 5:47 pm · filed under
The Wilderness Society
The Wilderness Society has welcomed Gunns Limited’s announcement that a new Tasmanian pulp mill would source 100% of its wood from plantations but called for further steps by the company and Forestry Tasmania to ensure the destruction of the State’s native forest is stopped. The group wants proof the promise will be delivered and has called attention to Gunns’ existing wood supply deal that locks in an annual supply of over 1 million tonnes of native forest for the next 20 years.
posted by seamas on January 11, 2010 at 8:09 am · filed under
ABC News
New car emission standards proposed by the Australian Government aim to reduce pollutants by up to 90%. The Government wants to bring in the standards in 2012, but industry representatives say that schedule is too ambitious.
posted by seamas on January 9, 2010 at 11:07 am · filed under
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