Centre for Environmental Law

We conduct cutting-edge research to address the triple planetary crisis: environmental pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss.

Established in 1983, Macquarie University’s Centre for Environmental Law (CEL) is Australia’s oldest continually functioning environmental law centre.

Our mission is to drive transformative change through cutting-edge interdisciplinary research that provides solutions to the triple planetary crisis of environmental pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss. CEL researchers have expertise in the fields of sustainable development, business and human rights, environmental law, climate change, ecocide, food systems, ocean governance and biodiversity law.

CEL collaborates with UN agencies, governments, universities, think tanks, businesses and civil society organisations to develop effective law and policy tools to support a sustainable common future. We have built strong collaborative links with research centres and other partners in Asia Pacific.

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We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which Macquarie University stands – the Wallumattagal Clan of the Dharug Nation – whose cultures and customs have nurtured, and continue to nurture, this land since time immemorial. We pay our respects to the Elders, past and present.