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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... law framework in so far as it either prevents , allows or requires the consideration of greenhouse emissions in environmental assessment and development consent processes and the application of 2 CLIMATE LAW IN.AUSTRALIA Chapter.
... law framework in so far as it either prevents , allows or requires the consideration of greenhouse emissions in environmental assessment and development consent processes and the application of 2 CLIMATE LAW IN.AUSTRALIA Chapter.
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... allowed to stymie stronger State and local responses . While much has been made of the vagueness of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , Peter Chris- toff and Robyn Eckersley suggest that Australia may well be in ...
... allowed to stymie stronger State and local responses . While much has been made of the vagueness of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , Peter Chris- toff and Robyn Eckersley suggest that Australia may well be in ...
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... allow it to resume mining , the company calculated that the mine's vehicles and equipment and processing plant would produce 22,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually . But while the company offered to take immediate remedial action ...
... allow it to resume mining , the company calculated that the mine's vehicles and equipment and processing plant would produce 22,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually . But while the company offered to take immediate remedial action ...
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... allow them to do so ? And if government generally fails to act , what can and should courts and tribunals do ? The King Island dispute is also significant because it is just one of many cases which have now been before Australian courts ...
... allow them to do so ? And if government generally fails to act , what can and should courts and tribunals do ? The King Island dispute is also significant because it is just one of many cases which have now been before Australian courts ...
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... allow the rate and extent of climate change in the region to be defined over 10,000 years , 35 scientists attending a conference on climate change signed a petition against the quarry which was also presented to the tribunal . Their ...
... allow the rate and extent of climate change in the region to be defined over 10,000 years , 35 scientists attending a conference on climate change signed a petition against the quarry which was also presented to the tribunal . Their ...
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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