Happy Monday, everyone! Here's our reminder that without far stronger environmental laws the wildlife and places we all know and dearly love will continue to be destroyed and disappear, forever. theconversation.com/labor-is-clo... By @drphilmccormack.bsky.social @yungenchee.bsky.social and me.

The #TransformativeChange Assessment is the 1st @ipbes.bsky.social report on the root causes of the biodiversity crisis: ➡️ Disconnection / domination of nature & people ➡️ Concentration of power & wealth ➡️ Prioritization of short-term gains Recommended holiday reading! www.ipbes.net/transformati...

@drphilmccormack.bsky.social #ESAus2024 Environmental law on climate change and fire

Prof Brendan Wintle: Nature Repair Market has been a distraction from Nature Law Reform & funding for nature conservation. Until disclosure is mandatory, NRM will not have a pos impact. ‘Biodiversity offsets do not work 4 biodiversity. It’s time we see that 25yr experiment as a failure,’ #ESAus2024

This week, I was in Sydney to launch a new report about the legal barriers to cultural burning in New South Wales (by a cracking team: Oli Costello, Michelle Mckemey and me!). It's a really important resource and, I hope, will underpin long-overdue reforms to empower First Nations-led burning 🔥

🎧 Listen in 💚 I explain on this podcast 'why lawyers care' about the environment and climate change. My dear colleague and I derailed the conversation a bit (classic lawyers 😂) as we shared our deep, radical hope for our world 🌏 even as climate change changes everything 🌱 pca.st/episode/980f...