DEA objects to the proposed Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Territorial Limits) Bill 2019. Eliminating assessment of downstream or Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions from major projects in New South Wales will increase greenhouse gas emissions, driving increased climate change whose health impacts will be felt on a local and global scale. 

It is in the public health interest for a planning authority to account for all greenhouse gas emissions produced in the life cycle of major projects in New South Wales. 

 Read DEA’s full submission here