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The Australian Government @DCCEEW last week quietly released draft National Environmental Standards (NES) for Matters of National Environmental Significance (MNES) as part of its #EPBCAct reform.
*2 weeks consultation*, due 22 May 2023
A🧵on key issues👇
consult.dcceew.gov.au/draft-nes-for-…
*2 weeks consultation*, due 22 May 2023
A🧵on key issues👇
consult.dcceew.gov.au/draft-nes-for-…
Note the overarching MNES standard is the first to be released, there are others in development that will be released (hopefully) soon, including for:
- Environmental Offsets
- Regional Planning
- First Nations Engagement and Participation
- Community Engagement
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- Environmental Offsets
- Regional Planning
- First Nations Engagement and Participation
- Community Engagement
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First, what's the overall goal? #NaturePositive! (it's mentioned 19 times in the document)
What does this mean? Apparently - a "collective outcome" where the environment is "repaired, regenerated and protected", requiring action everyone, not just government.
Some issues:
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What does this mean? Apparently - a "collective outcome" where the environment is "repaired, regenerated and protected", requiring action everyone, not just government.
Some issues:
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"So, when we look at that $100 trillion opportunity [], #biotech is pervasive... it’s everywhere & growing. Few industry sectors are not going become dependent on biotec's creations. In the last 10 yrs years, every corp. needed to hire #data #scientists."
medium.com/indiebio-sf/th…
medium.com/indiebio-sf/th…
"Since the early 1990s, when we first invented protein #engineering & the mechanisms to edit the #genome, we’ve been increasingly capable of altering life's instruction code — not just in our own bodies, but truly, in all life forms on the #planet."
#VaccinePathways #Biotech
#VaccinePathways #Biotech
"literally, all of this biomass,[] is now subject to human design. We can study its instruction code, mimic it, transplant it elsewhere, or edit it directly. Our planetary impact is so great that we humans decide, intentionally or blindly, which species thrive & which go extinct"
