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It aims to promote Sustainable futures: including planning for climate change; encouraging environmental sustainability, supporting environmental innovation, and developing strategies and policies to achieve an environmentally sustainable future; and achieve organisational performance and capability: including building a "robust" scientific ...
A sustainability declaration was a checklist of sustainability features that was required to be completed by home-owners and vendors in Queensland, Australia before a home could be sold. [1] [2] The checklist identifies the property's environmental and social sustainability features in the four areas of energy, water, safety, and access. [3]
The Environmental Defenders Office (Qld) Inc. (EDO Qld) was a non-profit, non-government Community Legal Centre which was established in 1989. and is one of nine independent Environmental Defenders Offices located across Australia which collaborated in a loose network known as the EDOs of Australia.
New regulations came into effect on 22 August 2020: [2] the Nature Conservation (Animals) Regulation 2020 (the Animals Regulation), introducing a new animal licensing framework; and the Nature Conservation (Plants) Regulation 2020 (the Plants Regulation), which transferred all existing plant provisions into a single stand-alone regulation.
The first functions of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries began in 1855 when a sheep scab inspector began work in the New South Wales colony of Moreton Bay.After Queensland's Separation, livestock diseases were addressed through regulations administered by the Stock Branch in the Queensland Colonial Secretary's Office. [3]
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000 also commenced on 16 July 2000, [6] (with 21 amendments up to the latest on 17 December 2018 [7]). The purpose of the regulations is to give effect to the provisions of the Act. [5] The Act has had many amendments through its lifetime. Significant amendments include the ...
Queensland's resources sector creates a strong demand for electricity at mines, smelters and refineries, which are often located in regional Queensland. [7] Two interconnectors between Queensland and New South Wales allow the state to export power south. [2] The first was the Terranora interconnector, commissioned in 2000.
The Act was modelled on the Victorian Local Government Act 1874, but the legislation soon proved unsuitable to Queensland's requirements given its large, sparsely populated areas. The Government's response was the Divisional Boards Act 1879 , which intended to extend local government to those areas of Queensland which could not be included in ...