Darling Downs Environment Council Competitors

ISES works to achieve 100% renewable energy for all, used efficiently and wisely, by providing the global renewable energy community with a collective, scientifically credible voice and up-to-date information gathered and synthesized by its talented members. ISES is a non-profit UN-accredited membership NGO founded in 1954, with a long history of being the trusted global advisor on renewable energy and this remains its core value. ISES informs and connects its extensive, diverse membership of researchers, academics, professionals, practitioners, businesses, decision makers, and advocates in more than 100 countries. ISES promotes solar research and development, provides authoritative advice on renewable energy issues worldwide, advocates for a sustainable global solar industry, supports career growth of Young ISES members, and promotes energy education at all levels.

The AEGN brings together philanthropists who care about the environment and enables them to become better at what they love doing. Our members co-fund, share networks, go on field trips together, attend private briefings and much more. Above all, our members discover that far more can be achieved through working together than by acting alone. Established in 2009, we are a member based organisation that aims to help members become more effective environmental grantmakers through information sharing, collaboration and networking. We also aim to grow the amount of philanthropic funds going to the environment within Australia. The AEGN provides the means for environmental grantmakers to: • Connect with, encourage and challenge one another • Explore environmental issues and grantmaking • Promote, diversify and expand environmental philanthropy

The PLP is committed to developing ecological sustainability for Australian society. It is crucial that Australia generates, uses, and recycles its energy supplies without destroying the natural and social environment. Neither the Liberal Coalition government or the ALP have a serious commitment to environmental protection or sustainability - for these parties their environmental policy is more driven by the interests of big business. A commitment to environmental sustainability means a commitment to a balanced approach to development and the generation and use of energy to ensure that our natural and social environment is not destroyed: ! protecting the livelihood of promotion of alternative jobs for those currently employed within industries that cannot be sustained; ! promoting more efficient use of current energy supplies and the development of renewable energy sources with a view to them eventually replacing fossil fuels, eg. by subsidising such resources; ! re-establishing public control over strategic energy resources and ensuring that national and international environmental standards are met; ! reducing the use of fossil fuels; ! reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in order to reduce the "greenhouse effect"; ! relieving greenhouse emissions by extending public transport use and reducing the number of cars on Australia's roads; ! ratifying the Kyoto Treaty; ! extending and enhancing domestic recycling at the local level; ! rewarding standards for industrial and consumer packaging which reduce reliance on non-renewable packaging; ! consulting with building groups and workers to develop effective guidelines for environment-friendly building codes. Australia needs a forest policy based on ecological, economic and social responsibility. PLP forestry policies will be based on sound land use. They take account of the principles of individual rights and ecological, economic and social responsibility and will aim to achieve accord with indigenous Australians affected by forestry practices. ...