Environmental Defenders Office About
Student Opportunities
environmental legal centre in the Australia-Pacific,
who have studied planning and/or environmental law.
Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) is the largest dedicated to protecting our climate, communities and shared environment by providing access to justice, litigation and law reform advocacy.
EDO work all around the country, with farmers,
conservation groups, Traditional Owners, and people from all walks of life and all manner of places.
Many of EDO's services are targeted at rural and regional communities where the threats of climate change and environmental mismanagement are most keenly felt.
What kind of work?
EDO specialise in environmental law including:
EDO offers volunteering opportunities for law students Legal volunteers are involved in the following:
- Legal research on matters concerning biodiversity, climate change, pollution, planning, mining and water law;
- Assisting in the preparation of court documents and drafting letters and legal advices;
- Assisting solicitors in case work and litigation in Court;
- Engaging in public interest legal environmental work for a broad scope of clients;
Drafting submissions and participating in law reform work; and
- Assisting solicitors in the preparation of educational materials for the community.
- Climate change and energy
Volunteers must be able to commit at least one day
- Aboriginal culture and heritage and access to country
information here:
- Biodiversity and threatened species protection - Water management
- Urban planning and heritage protection
per week for at least three months. You can find more https://www.edo.org.au/volunteer-with-us-2/
- Mining and coal seam gas
Graduate Opportunities
- Protected areas
Graduates
- Forestry and native vegetation management
Type of work done by employees:
Legal volunteering can count towards PLT requirements. must
have
enivoronmental law units.
completed
planning
and/or
- Legal and scientific advice to people and communities
Fun Fact / Recent Project
interest litigation
EDO is representing Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action
- Legal representation of community groups in public - Law reform and policy work - Community education
- Holding government and industry to account over
matters like development, pollution and mismanagement
Location
Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Darwin and Perth
Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action
who are calling on the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) in NSW to develop a climate change policy to regulate greenhouse gas pollutants.
At present, the NSW Environmental Protection Authority
(EPA) has no policy to adequately address climate change and does not regulate the state’s emissions.
The Bushfire Survivors For Climate Action are launching this case to encourage – and if necessary compel – the EPA to develop policies and guidelines to regulate
greenhouse gas emissions and ensure a safe climate. EDO will argue on behalf of the Bushfire Survivors
For Climate Action that the EPA is not only explicitly
empowered by its legislation to take strong action on climate by controlling the emission of greenhouse
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gases, it is also required to do this under its own laws.