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NEWS 4 FEB 2019

Holistic Marine Spatial Planning for Victoria’s Marine Waters

Members of the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability attend Victoria’s first Marine Spatial Planning Summit on 1 February 2019 organised by DELWP. By Senior Science Writer…

NEWS 13 OCT 2018

Talking Waste in Ipswich

Last week, Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability Dr Gillian Sparkes attended the Future Waste Resources Convention at the Workshops Rail Museum in Ipswich, Queensland which brought…

NEWS 18 SEP 2018

OCES at the Royal Society of Victoria’s Future Thinking Forum

The forum was held in conjunction with Emergency Management Victoria, the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, the Bureau of Meteorology Science into Action and Scientell…

NEWS 27 AUG 2018

Welcoming the New EP Bill

On the 22 August 2018, the Victorian Parliament passed the Environment Protection Amendment Bill 2018 which will see a transformation to the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria's…

NEWS 14 AUG 2018

A new Marine and Coastal Act

To protect Victoria’s marine and coastal environments now and into the future, we have established a new Marine and Coastal Act as part of a broader package of reforms. On 1 August 2018 the …

NEWS 28 JUL 2018

Is air quality the most important environmental indicator?

I wanted to share some of the fantastic insights from a CEDA event on Innovation Precincts that Andrea Hinwood, Victoria’s Chief Environmental Scientist and I attended last week. We…

NEWS 6 JUL 2018

Celebrating NAIDOC Week, 8-15 July 2018

The Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability team is fortunate to work alongside Aboriginal Victorians, who are a vital voice in deepening our understanding of the state’s history…

NEWS 3 JUL 2018

Victoria says no to plastic waste

Community consultation has helped end of single-use, lightweight plastic shopping bags from 2019 to help protect our environment from plastic pollution. There was an overwhelming response of more…

STORY 2 JUL 2018

Hungry urchins

Why underwater meadows matter South Gippsland’s Nooramunga Marine and Coastal Park, just to the east of Wilsons Prom, is the only place in Victoria with large, unbroken areas of seagrass…

NEWS 5 JUN 2018

Beat Plastic Pollution this World Environment Day

This year’s World Environment Day theme is beating plastic pollution. This 5 June, the environment will be celebrated in more than 100 countries and #BeatPlasticPollution is the tag that…