The Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) is sincerely grateful to the trustees of The Ubuntu Foundation for your generous investment to advance climate action and First Nations justice in Queensland. As a result of your support, we have delivered urgent legal interventions to protect our unique environment and tackle fast moving fossil fuel projects in partnership with First Nations communities, who bear the disproportionate burden of dangerous climate change. The state of Queensland is a key climate battleground, with approximately 42 Queensland-based fossil fuel project approvals in the pipeline. Cumulatively, these projects represent 24.77 Gt (gigatonnes) of greenhouse gas emissions, which is why your support at this time is so crucial.

Thanks to the Ubuntu Foundation, EDO has progressed significant cases that will have lasting impacts for future generations. EDO centres First Nations perspectives and rights in our work, as we build partnerships to protect human rights and nature through informed use of the law. Climate justice is inextricably linked with justice for First Nations people who hold deep, cultural, customary, and spiritual connections to land. Our recent on-Country work, with court proceedings occurring in accordance with First Law protocols, has reinforced the progress we can make together.