Oct 29, 2025 | Climate, Latest News
António Guterres says it is now inevitable that we will overshoot the 1.5C target set at the Paris climate agreement. Every day, there are more stories of species becoming extinct, floods and storms and fires, lives lost and biodiversity destroyed. Every day, more...
Oct 27, 2025 | Climate, Latest News, Media Releases
The ACT Government today informed the community that the Territory will not meet our 2025 interim target of reducing emissions by 50-60% on 1990 levels and that if we stay on the current trajectory, we will struggle to achieve net zero by 2045. This reinvigorates the...
Sep 30, 2025 | Climate, Latest News
The ACT Region Conservation Council was a recent signatory, alongside other members and groups of the Australian environment movement, to an open letter calling on the Australian Government to take urgent action to address the humanitarian, legal, and environmental...
Sep 22, 2025 | Climate, Latest News, Media Releases, Urban planning
The Conservation Council has recently made a submission on the draft Missing Middle Housing Reforms policy. This ACT Government policy aims to diversify the housing options for the Canberra region by increasing the stock of dual or tri-occupancy housing, townhouses...
Sep 4, 2025 | Climate, Latest News, Nature and waterways
The Conservation Council ACT Region has today expressed dismay after the ACT Government refused to take concrete steps on a commitment to phase out wood heaters in the Territory by 2045, which was initially announced in 2023. The Government yesterday voted down a...
Jun 3, 2025 | Climate, Latest News
Canberra climate activists are uniting with Conservation Councils across Australia. Demonstrators will convoy today with Albanese’s Woodside Carbon Bomb (see image), to all four Labor politicians – outraged and heartbroken by the Environment Minister Murray...
