Indigenous knowledges are essential for healing nature, people and planet, global summit told The Global Nature Positive Summit, which was held on Gadigal Country last week, co-hosted by the Australian and NSW Governments,

Great read from @croakeynews.bsky.social's Rebecca Thorpe on insights from, and themes of interest and priorities for Indigenous leaders at the #NaturePositiveSummit

Nature conservation is a public good, not a market - 360 Private investment in conservation is always welcome but the evidence suggests governments will need to do the heavy lifting when it comes to repairing nature. Leaders from across government, the priv...

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@euanritchie.bsky.social & I argue that biodiversity is a vital public good & governments should invest accordingly

To be clear, businesses are most welcome to contribute!

Businesses don’t need a market or a swarm of ticket-clipping intermediaries to do so 👀👇

"There is clear hypocrisy in asking for private investment to protect and restore nature while allowing and funding its destruction through native forest logging.” - Justin Field, Forest Alliance of NSW & fmr independent member of the NSW upper house

Fair point about #NaturePositiveSummit

Environment summit taking place in Sydney while greater glider habitat is logged is ‘bullshit’, advocates say Harvesting in Bulga state forest, inland from Port Macquarie, is just 400km from global nature-positive summit the government is hosting

Unvarnished review of Australia's #NaturePositiveSummit

"The hypocrisy and the greenwashing is just beyond belief. That they [the government] could stand on the global stage and proclaim themselves environmental protectors and as playing some kind of leadership role – it’s just bullshit.”

Need to navigate #NaturePositiveSummit 8-10 Oct, Sydney?

Watch @pollyjhemming.bsky.social's guide to buzzwords in #NatureFinancialisation #NatureAsAnAssetClass

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"profit-for-purpose" #CarbonOffsets company, Climate Friendly, has a speaking slot at #NaturePositiveSummit (8-10 Oct, Sydney) — hope they get lots of media questions about:
a) investments in their firm by Mitsui & Adamantem &
b) how their "massive" trading volumes is fossil fuel-enabling👇

#NaturePositiveSummit

Help business understand NOTHING is stopping them from:
⭐️ MODELING best practices in enviro & sustainability mgt
⭐️diligently COMPLYING with environmental laws & regulations
⭐️ADVOCATING for stronger legislation, regulation & social changes to ⬇️ business-driven biodiversity harm

#NaturePositiveSummit

Help business understand that NOTHING is stopping them from:
⭐️donating or materially supporting EXISTING conservation & restoration orgs & initiatives
⭐️CEASING all activities that directly/indirectly cause or enable environmental & biodiversity harm

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Also, why are scientists & enviro lawyers lending their imprimatur to carbon & #BiodiversityMarkets that are the "wrong answer to the wrong question"—a delaying and diverting distraction at a time of biodiversity & climate emergency?
www.biodmarketwatch.info

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7/n #NaturePositiveSummit

I hope media also asks how:
❗cont'd fossil fuel expansion
❗unchecked clearing & habitat destruction
❗ineffective laws & stalled reforms
❗failed policies like carbon & biodiversity offsets & credits👇 &
❗grossly inadequate public investment
is #NaturePositive

6/n #NaturePositiveSummit

I hope media asks what #NaturePositive means cos the basic elements of a meaningful definition (sensu Milner-Gullland 2022 www.nature.com/articles/s41...) are conspicuously absent in Labor's (currently stalled) Nature Positive (Environment Information Australia) Bill 2024

5/n #NaturePositiveSummit

Though announced with much fanfare, the long-promised, independent Environment Protection Agency now lies on the operating table, about to be defanged & made more ‘business-friendly’
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Australia’s long-sought stronger environmental laws just got indefinitely deferred. It’s back to business as usual An end to extinctions. An environmental cop on the beat. Labor promised a great deal on the environment. But yesterday, they backed away from the main challenge.

4/n #NaturePositiveSummit

What we HAVEN'T got are:

✳️ legally enforceable National Environmental Standards—the centrepiece of EPBC reforms—meant to set clear policy objectives for protections, decision making & outcomes

Coal Mine Tracker To avoid dangerous climate change there can be no new coal mines. Coal Mine Tracker tracks the 25 new coal mines currently awaiting Federal Government approval.

3/n #NaturePositiveSummit

Since launching Labor’s Nature Positive Plan in Dec 2022, we also got:

❗7 new coal mines or expansions, amounting to over 1.5 billion tonnes of lifetime emissions
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2/n #NaturePositiveSummit

Since launching Labor’s Nature Positive Plan in Dec2022, we got a:

❗Sea Dumping Bill, that will facilitate the re-badging of expiring Oil & Gas facilities as dodgy, high-risk CCS projects to evade responsible decommissioning
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