Sentences with phrase «australian federal environment»
Australian Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has called Greenpeace's revelations «serious» and insisted they must be investigated.
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The court dismissed claims by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) that former federal environment minister Greg Hunt's 2014 approval of the Carmichael mine violated international obligations to protect the reef, a UNESCO world heritage site.
This has been written into the system and the impossibility of Australian firms participating in the scheme if Australia refuses to ratify was recently confirmed to me by Dr Karsten Sach of the German Federal Ministry of the Environment.
Socio (s): European Commission, German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Australian Government
On a more positive note, federal environment minister Greg Hunt has promised that the Australian government will be «examining the cumulative effect of human activities and natural forces rather than looking at impacts in isolation».
So it is not surprising then that the launch of the report was accompanied by an announcement (PDF) from the federal Australian Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, that $ 45,000 would be forthcoming for the «development of a national cycling training scheme, to encourage more people to choose two wheeled transportation over four.»
The current Australian Indigenous health policy environment has developed in parallel with increasing recognition of broader concepts of health that involve social determinants — including peace, education and social justice, and equity — as enunciated in documents such as the Ottawa Charter11 and repeated in Australian strategic documents such as the Ways forward blueprint for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health.12 Unfortunately, the implementation of such strategies appears to be held back by a lack of coordination between federal and state governments and departments in terms of effective administrative responsibility for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and social determinants.