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Phil McCormack
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Research Fellow + ARC DECRA on future fires, The University of Adelaide. I research laws about #biodiversity 🦎 #wildfire 🔥 #climate #adaptation. My passion is to see law helping people & all nature to flourish as the world changes rapidly
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Happy Monday, everyone!

Here's our reminder that without far stronger environmental laws the wildlife and places we all know and dearly love will continue to be destroyed and disappear, forever.

theconversation.com/labor-is-clo... By @drphilmccormack.bsky.social @yungenchee.bsky.social and me.
Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short
Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?
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October 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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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...
December 21, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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@drphilmccormack.bsky.social #ESAus2024 Environmental law on climate change and fire
December 11, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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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
December 11, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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 🔥
North East NSW Forestry Hub | Report » Identifying and overcoming legal barriers to cultural burning
literature and legal review of cultural burning included on ground workshop with Indigenous fire practitioners
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November 23, 2024 at 5:55 AM
🎧 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...
The Cycle of Influence, Laws and Nature - Eco Futurists
Planning for the future and breaking new ground across industries must involve improving our natural environment along the way. Our lives and livelihoods depend on it. In this podcast, we hear from pe...
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November 19, 2024 at 8:53 PM