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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... Minister Howard , that climate change is a ' moral ' issue.62 The President of the VCAT , Stuart Morris , was first to invoke intergenerational equity in 2004 when he questioned the ' cost to the future interest of Victorians ' of exten ...
... Minister Howard , that climate change is a ' moral ' issue.62 The President of the VCAT , Stuart Morris , was first to invoke intergenerational equity in 2004 when he questioned the ' cost to the future interest of Victorians ' of exten ...
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... Minister for the Environment , Senator Campbell , proclaimed Pain's judgment ' a disastrous decision for climate change ' and warned that the insertion of a greenhouse trigger in the EPBC Act would ensure that ' people like Justice ...
... Minister for the Environment , Senator Campbell , proclaimed Pain's judgment ' a disastrous decision for climate change ' and warned that the insertion of a greenhouse trigger in the EPBC Act would ensure that ' people like Justice ...
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... Minister for Planning to impose conditions ' aimed at ensuring the development is undertaken in an environmentally responsible manner ' , requires the Minister to impose conditions which minimise greenhouse emissions ' to the greatest ...
... Minister for Planning to impose conditions ' aimed at ensuring the development is undertaken in an environmentally responsible manner ' , requires the Minister to impose conditions which minimise greenhouse emissions ' to the greatest ...
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... Minister for Urban Affairs [ 1995 ] NSWLEC 225 ; [ 1996 ] NSWLEC 56 ; Minister for Urban Affairs v Rosemount Estates ( 1996 ) 91 LGERA 31. See also NSW Legislative Council Hansard , 5 June 1996 , 18 June 1996 . 22 Higgins v Colac Otway ...
... Minister for Urban Affairs [ 1995 ] NSWLEC 225 ; [ 1996 ] NSWLEC 56 ; Minister for Urban Affairs v Rosemount Estates ( 1996 ) 91 LGERA 31. See also NSW Legislative Council Hansard , 5 June 1996 , 18 June 1996 . 22 Higgins v Colac Otway ...
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... Minister for the Environment Applicant's Outline of Argument [ 51 ] - [ 75 ] . 51 See , for example , DE Fisher , ' The Response of the United States Supreme Court to Global Warming : Injury in Fact or Conjecture ' Environment and ...
... Minister for the Environment Applicant's Outline of Argument [ 51 ] - [ 75 ] . 51 See , for example , DE Fisher , ' The Response of the United States Supreme Court to Global Warming : Injury in Fact or Conjecture ' Environment and ...
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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