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. |
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... Adaptation Programme Queensland Conservation Council United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Introduction Tim Bonyhady and Peter Christoff When Sir Ninian Stephen xi Abbreviations.
... Adaptation Programme Queensland Conservation Council United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Introduction Tim Bonyhady and Peter Christoff When Sir Ninian Stephen xi Abbreviations.
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... United Kingdom has led to new policies and use of the existing legal framework to create a web of regulations and supporting measures , contributing to significant reductions in emissions . In Germany , for instance , successive ...
... United Kingdom has led to new policies and use of the existing legal framework to create a web of regulations and supporting measures , contributing to significant reductions in emissions . In Germany , for instance , successive ...
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... United States . As with other environmental issues in Australia where government has been more or less inactive , both courts and tribunals have become significant forums for testing the law , trying to ensure better decisions and ...
... United States . As with other environmental issues in Australia where government has been more or less inactive , both courts and tribunals have become significant forums for testing the law , trying to ensure better decisions and ...
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... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , Peter Chris- toff and Robyn Eckersley suggest that Australia may well be in breach of the Convention's provisions . For all the attention paid to the omission of a greenhouse ...
... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , Peter Chris- toff and Robyn Eckersley suggest that Australia may well be in breach of the Convention's provisions . For all the attention paid to the omission of a greenhouse ...
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... release , Joanna Depledge . Against the Grain : The United States and the Global Climate Challenge ' Global Change , Peace and Security , vol 17 , no 1 , pp 11-12 ; Robyn 9 Eckersley , ' Norms and Interests in Climate Change 5 INTRODUCTION.
... release , Joanna Depledge . Against the Grain : The United States and the Global Climate Challenge ' Global Change , Peace and Security , vol 17 , no 1 , pp 11-12 ; Robyn 9 Eckersley , ' Norms and Interests in Climate Change 5 INTRODUCTION.
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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