Law Reform Submissions

NELA has welcomed the opportunity to make a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communication into the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight…

NELA has developed this submission on greenwashing with the help of a roundtable of members and key voices in environmental law in Australia. NELA would like to thank all those…

On 3 March 2023, NELA was pleased to provide the following submission on the Draft Nature Repair Market Bill (Biodiversity Certificates Scheme). In summary, NELA submitted: That the objects of…

NELA welcomed the opportunity to comment on the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Safeguard Mechanism) Amendments Rules (Safeguard Rules) on 28 February 2023. NELA’s submission included: NELA generally supports the…

NELA have recently prepared a briefing note on the key issues for environmental reform in Australia, these issues included: 1. Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999…

NELA have recently prepared a briefing note on the key issues for environmental reform in NSW, these issues included: 1. Biodiversity Offsets Scheme reform 2. Resource Recovery Framework 3. Plastics…

NELA has taken the opportunity to make a submission on the proposed changes to the Safeguard Mechanism. In summary, NELA submitted that: 1. prescriptive and ambitious baselines will be crucial,…

NELA National’s Vice President Dr Katie Woolaston has responded to the Federal State of the Environment Report, which was released yesterday. She writes that it is a painful, if not unexpected, update…