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NEWS 15 NOV 2016

Legal advice warns directors risk personal liability for breach of duty if they fail to properly consider the impact of climate change

Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Dr Gillian Sparkes, recently participated in a business roundtable to discuss a legal opinion by Noel Hutley SC. Hutley’s legal opinion,…

NEWS 22 MAR 2016

Strategic Audit Report 2014

The Strategic Audit Report of Environmental Management Systems in Victorian Government 2014-15 has now been tabled in the Victorian Parliament. The Strategic Audit Report is a requirement under the…

NEWS 5 FEB 2016

First State of the Bays Report now underway

The 2016 State of the Bays Report will be the first of its kind and will provide a scientifically rigorous baseline report on the health of Port Phillip Bay and Western Port against which future…

NEWS 10 DEC 2015

Framework for 2018 State of the Environment Report: State & Benefit

A plan to change the way the Victorian Government reports on the state of our environment will see the five-yearly report move toward digital reporting while also making the State’s many…

NEWS 26 OCT 2015

Leadbeater's Possum interactive map

The report shows progress in the protection of  Leadbeater’s Possum  based on a number of  milestones delivered over the past 12 months. These include a total of 116 …

NEWS 9 OCT 2015

Valuing our environment

While it may not be surprising that tourism adds more than $1.4 billion in value to the Victorian economy each year, theValuing Victoria's Parks [BROKEN LINK] report also measures the value…

NEWS 7 SEP 2015

National Threatened Species Day

Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability Dr Gillian Sparkes said Zoos Victoria is undertaking leading edge work to tackle the challenge of saving our threatened species. The Helmeted Honeyeater…

NEWS 15 JUL 2015

State of the Birds

A report by BirdLife Australia,  State of Australia's Birds 2015, showing a decline in the populations of some of Australia’s most common native birds, has been commended by the…

NEWS 7 JUL 2015

Submissions open for Climate Change Act review

  An  Independent Review Committee, including Martijn Wilder AM, Chair, and members Professor Rosemary Lyster and Anna Skarbek, has been established by the government and is now seeking …

NEWS 29 JUN 2015

Digital disruption and the environment

  Digital disruption is the rapidly growing force changing the way businesses interact with their customers and each other – and changing the way citizens are interacting with government. It is…