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NEWS 20 AUG 2019
Sustainable Development during IPAA Victoria Public Sector Week 2019
As part of the third biennial IPAA Victoria Public Sector Week 2019, Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability Dr Gillian Sparkes joined a stellar line up of speakers to discuss …
NEWS 15 AUG 2019
Position Magazine Q&A with Dr Gillian Sparkes
Our Commissioner, Dr Gillian Sparkes, was recently interviewed by Position magazine. In this interview, Dr Sparkes discusses the importance of adopting the United Nations Sustainable…
NEWS 9 AUG 2019
Experts comment on latest IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land
Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability Dr Gillian Sparkes, along with leading climate experts including ARC Centre for Climate System Science’s Professor Steven Sherwood; CSIRO…
NEWS 7 MAY 2019
How business can lead and rebuild trust by Dr Gillian Sparkes
Two hundred and fifty local and global leaders from business, civil society, academia and Government convened at Arts Centre Melbourne on April 30-May 1 for the …
NEWS 3 MAY 2019
The Future of Victoria's Environment at the Royal Society of Victoria
Don't miss out on Dr Scott Rawlings and Andrew Marshall presenting on the key outcomes and recommendations from the recently released State of the Environment 2018 Report at the Royal Society of…
NEWS 19 MAR 2019
Victoria leads the way in adopting the UN SDGs for environmental reporting
The Victorian State of the Environment (SoE) 2018 Report is the first attempt in Australia to apply the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) [hyperlink] to state of environment reporting…
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 6 SEP 2018
Transforming Australia: SDG Progress Report
The team from the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability Victoria attended the Committee for Economic Development Australia launch event ‘Transforming Australia:…
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 …
STORY 2 JUL 2018
The particulars of plastic
All plastic breaks down into microplastics; every bit of plastic that is manufactured has the potential to end up in our environment. At the moment we know there’s a huge amount of plastic in the…