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Submission on Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Territorial Limits) Bill 2019 (February 2020)

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