Submissions
Submission re guideline for the new Koala SEPP 2019
Submission regarding the guideline for the new Koala SEPP 2019
A SEPP which aims to protect a species, an ecological community or the natural environment is useless unless it:
prohibits activities known to have negative consequence for the protection of the target makes mandatory, rather than desirable, actions or practices which could assist protection of the target is relevant to …
AFCA submission to the European Union Climate Target Initiative 2020
AFCA submitted to the 2030 EU Climate Target Initiative in relation to its erroneous regard that forest bioenergy is a renewable energy. We argued logically that emissions are without borders so all nation states must immediately reduce emissions and draw down excess atmospheric carbon to avoid irreversible global warming.
We argued for a cessation of fossil fuel combustion and protection …
Submission to Inquiry into NSW Energy Supply and its Sustainability
AFCA’s submission addresses Terms of Reference Numbers 2, 4 and 5 and focuses on the impact of Federal and NSW state legislation that deems energy from burning wood, and in particular wood biomass from native forests, a carbon neutral ‘renewable’. We provide an overview of the impact and implications of legislation currently enabling subsidisation of native forest bioenergy and fuels.
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Submission into the Royal Commission into Natural Disasters (Bushfire) with specific reference to bushfire
AFCA addressed the issue of catastrophic bushfires from a land management perspective that included the following recommendations
Recommendation 1: Recognise climate change as a primary driver of bushfire risk and logging native forests a major contributing factor to both climate change and bushfire risk
Recommendation 2: The Commonwealth to develop new policies for an end to native forest logging and …
Submission into routine review of Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
AFCA’s submission to the review of Australia’s cornerstone environmental legislation, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, argues the Act is inadequate and needs to be strengthened. In particular it should not be weakened to devolve matters of national significance to the states, over-riding federal protection.
AFCA addressed the following issues:
Introduction
Section 1: Government failure to implement critical recommendations …
AFCA Submission To ARENA Bioenergy Roadmap
Australian Forests and Climate Alliance (AFCA) Submission to ARENA Bioenergy Roadmap – 10 June 2020
Recommendations
The ARENA Bioenergy Roadmap excludes forest derived bioenergy from consideration as an energy source in Australia’s future; for on- or off-shore consumption. Governments across Australia review and amend references to the use of native forest materials for fuel in legislation and regulation with a …
Australia’s Review of Climate Change Policy
It is critical that the logging industry does not get into further logging and clearing of native forest ecosystems under the guise of the need to thin them as a bushfire mitigation strategy. The science has clearly established that logged forests burn hotter, more frequently and more catastrophically than unlogged forests and the development of any policy in relation to …
Review of Draft Australian FSC Standard
AFCA and its members believe that due to decades of over logging and climate change it is now no longer possible to achieve sustainable industrial native forest logging in Australia nor in Primary forests around the world. AFCA believe that if the concerns we raise in this submission are met and the risk assessment process is followed correctly then the …
Inquiry into climate change and biodiversity
It is critical that the logging industry does not get into further logging and clearing of native forest ecosystems under the guise of the need to thin them as a bushfire mitigation strategy. The science has clearly established that logged forests burn hotter, more frequently and more catastrophically than unlogged forests and the development of any policy in relation to …
Independent Review into the Future Security of the National Electricity Market
The Australian Forests and Climate Alliance has correctly argued since 2009 that native forest biomass is neither a carbon neutral nor a low emission means by which energy can be generated, either alone or in co-generation facilities.
We observe that the preliminary report of the review you are undertaking includes biomass combustion in its list of ‘low emission’ technologies: ‘There …