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NEWS 23 SEP 2019

Climate Change Impacts: 13 Themes in 13 Weeks Series

To coincide with the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019: A Race We Can Win in New York, we are highlighting our chapter on Climate Change Impacts in the Victorian State of the…

NEWS 16 SEP 2019

International Day of the Preservation of the Ozone Layer: 13 Themes in 13 Weeks Series

Today is International Day of the Preservation of the Ozone Layer and marks 32 years since the Montreal Protocol. The Montreal Protocol has led to the phase-out of 99 per cent of ozone-depleting…

NEWS 9 SEP 2019

Keep Victoria Beautiful sustainable Cities Award 2019

The Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability Dr Gillian Sparkes was delighted to participate in the Keep Victoria Beautiful Sustainable Cities 2019 Awards Ceremony at Kensington Town…

NEWS 6 SEP 2019

Discussing the UN SDGs at the futureAUS Coworking Summit

Team members for the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability Andrew Marshall, Jack Coates-Marnane and Kangmin Moon took part in a workshop on the UN…

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 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 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…

NEWS 15 FEB 2018

Key updates to the State of the Bays 2016 Report

The launch of 2016 State of the Bays report gave Victoria its first ‘health check’ for the iconic Port Phillip Bay and Western Port. Environmental science and policy-making is a dynamic…