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...