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NEWS 15 APR 2015

Strategic Audit Report 2013-2014

Each year, the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability reports on the results of the strategic audit of implementation of the environmental management systems for mandated government…

NEWS 26 MAR 2015

National State of the Environment Reporting Forum

  Putting the audience front and centre when preparing and delivering reports, and driving continual evolution to meet an increasing range of demands,  is the clear message from the recent meeting…

NEWS 19 FEB 2015

Ministers Request Review of Bushfire Fuel Management Approach

The Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Dr Gillian Sparkes, has welcomed the announcement of a review of performance targets for the future bushfire fuel management program on public land,…

NEWS 11 NOV 2014

Renewable energy at Parks Victoria lighthouses

  An energy audit by Parks Victoria identified numerous hidden costs associated with the operation of remote lighthouse stations. As a consequence there are now plans to install renewable energy…

NEWS 10 NOV 2014

Commissioner says strong government leadership and support of education is imperative to attain sustainability

In presenting her report Strategic Audit – Addressing our future (Environmental Management Systems January 2010) to government and the people of Victoria today, the Commissioner for Environmental…

NEWS 10 NOV 2014

Commissioner says better appreciation of co-benefits of resource efficiency and environmental sustainability needed

The Structures for Sustainability 2011 audit report was tabled today in the Victorian Parliament. The report prepared by Victoria’s Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Professor Kate Auty…

NEWS 10 NOV 2014

Air quality monitoring in Brooklyn, Melbourne

In late 2009, the EPA started an air quality monitoring program in Brooklyn, a suburb 10 km west of the Melbourne city centre. The area had been subject to high levels of particle pollution with the…

NEWS 10 NOV 2014

Commissioner says contracts are powerful mechanisms for improvement of resource efficiency and environmental sustainability

The 2012 strategic audit report Sustainability - designed to be signed, sealed and delivered was tabled today in the Victorian Parliament. The report prepared by Victoria’s Commissioner for…

NEWS 10 NOV 2014

WaterWatch and EstuaryWatch

The Waterwatch and EstuaryWatch community monitoring programs are key components to the Victorian approach for monitoring waterway health. These programs are part of the broader monitoring framework…

NEWS 11 OCT 2014

Protecting Leadbeater's Possum

In 2012, Healesville Sanctuary initiated a captive-breeding program to prevent the extinction of the last lowland Leadbeater’s Possums at Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve. This population has…