Last month, Australian NGO and Member of WIN, the Human Rights Law Centre published "
Climate and Environmental Whistleblowing Information Guide" a legal resource for people looking to speak up and whistleblow on the environmental and climate issues in Australia.
Global warming is an already damaging threat to wildlife, ecosystems and human survivability. Australia sees the water surrounding it getting hotter, more acidic and reaching higher levels that induce flooding, increased fire weather and cyclones and the decline in snow on mountains.
The Centre has stated the crucial need to support those raising environmental and climate concerns and through there work with their
Whistleblowing Project, they are able to encourage and assist environmental whistleblowers bring about accountability and transparency. The guide they have published is further work to encourage this.
In April 2024, the Centre
supported scientists, doctors, nurses and ecologists to speak out against a proposed petrochemical hub for processing gas planned for Darwin Harbour. The Middle Arm development proposal has a 1.5 billion dollar subsidy from the Federal Government. If it goes ahead, it will raise carbon emissions, cause severe health risks to people in Darwin and threaten local fauna. It is estimated that the development will generate 1.3 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions over a 25-year period. More in the article linked.
Read more on the Human Rights Law Centre site.