Community Legal Centres Queensland believes that environmental protection and social justice are interconnected, a healthy environment being essential to life and its quality. Community Legal Centres Queensland supports:
- full disclosure, transparency and meaningful community consultation in the assessment and approval of major developments and major projects;
- clear application of the best available science, principles of ecologically sustainable development and the precautionary principle in all decision-making, policy development and legislation;
- measures to protect biodiversity and natural resources, such as the land and waters, from overuse and degradation;
- greater emphasis on climate change mitigation and adaptation in policy and in the assessment and approval of development and major projects;
- support for remediation and rehabilitation when environmental harm has occurred;
- Genuine access to justice for individuals to advocate in the public interest with respect to the environment; and
- active compliance with Australia’s international environmental treaty obligations.
Listed below are a range of research papers, submissions, news articles and items of interest that provide additional information on this subject area.
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Submission made by the Environmental Defenders Office of Northern Queensland Inc (EDONQ) (15 March 2019)
Submission made by the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) (15 March 2019)
Joint submission by Environmental Defenders Officer (19 March 2019)
Submission by Environmental Defenders Office of Northern Queensland (1 February 2019)
Submission by Environmental Defenders Office (1 February 2019)