Climate Law in AustraliaTim Bonyhady, Peter Christoff Federation Press, 2007 - 315 pages Climate Law in Australia provides the first extended account of Australia's new climate law. It examines key federal and state legislation and the main cases brought before Australian courts. It combines incisive legal analysis with a deep understanding of climate-related issues and policy. The authors include leading academics such as Professors Robyn Eckersley, David Farrier, Rob Fowler and Jan McDonald, and leading practitioners such as Charles Berger, Kirsty Ruddock, Chris McGrath, Allison Warburton and Martijn Wilder. The editors are Professor Tim Bonyhady, Director of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law at the Australian National University, and Dr Peter Christoff of the University of Melbourne and Vice President of the Australian Conservation Foundation. The book examines pivotal issues in Australian climate law and policy - the Kyoto Protocol and its alternatives, emissions targets, carbon trading, geosequestration, nuclear decision-making, adaptation to climate change and legal liability. It contains detailed analysis of the leading cases involving the Hazelwood power station, the Anvil Hill, Xstrata and Bowen Basin coal mines, and the Bald Hills and Taralga wind farms. Climate Law in Australia explores both the need for conventional legal regulation and the potential of economic responses to climate change. It shows how climate law has grown in Australia - and how far the law still has to go. |
From inside the book
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Page 5
... Commonwealth of Australia , Greenhouse Studies , no 4 , Canberra , 1991 , pp 26-46 . Clive Hamilton , Running from the Storm : The Development of Climate Change Politics in Australia , UNSW Press , Sydney , 2001 , pp 32-33 . See ...
... Commonwealth of Australia , Greenhouse Studies , no 4 , Canberra , 1991 , pp 26-46 . Clive Hamilton , Running from the Storm : The Development of Climate Change Politics in Australia , UNSW Press , Sydney , 2001 , pp 32-33 . See ...
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... Commonwealth's Minister for Forests Eric Abetz - the State's Resource Plan- ning and Development Commission authorised a prohibition of plantations on King Island in order to preserve existing areas of native vegetation and existing ...
... Commonwealth's Minister for Forests Eric Abetz - the State's Resource Plan- ning and Development Commission authorised a prohibition of plantations on King Island in order to preserve existing areas of native vegetation and existing ...
Page 10
... Commonwealth does little to combat the release of greenhouse gases , should State governments be able to implement tougher measures ? If State governments do little or nothing , should local govern- ments like the King Island Council be ...
... Commonwealth does little to combat the release of greenhouse gases , should State governments be able to implement tougher measures ? If State governments do little or nothing , should local govern- ments like the King Island Council be ...
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... Commonwealth Government that the downstream emissions from the Bowen Basin coal mines were not likely to have a significant impact on the matters of national environmental significance specified by the Environment Protection and ...
... Commonwealth Government that the downstream emissions from the Bowen Basin coal mines were not likely to have a significant impact on the matters of national environmental significance specified by the Environment Protection and ...
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... Commonwealth Government that the Anvil Hill mine did not require assessment under the EPBC Act because its emissions were ' relatively small ' compared to global emissions and hence unlikely to lead to an identifiable increase in global ...
... Commonwealth Government that the Anvil Hill mine did not require assessment under the EPBC Act because its emissions were ' relatively small ' compared to global emissions and hence unlikely to lead to an identifiable increase in global ...
Contents
Anvil Hill in | 189 |
Pyhrric victory or harbinger? | 214 |
Chapter 14 | 230 |
Chapter 15 | 256 |
Chapter 16 | 277 |
References | 293 |
Table of Statutes | 308 |
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