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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Page 13
... approaches that apply across the climate law domain . in Australia . A fundamental question remains whether or not our courts and tribunals are willing to rule that climate change is happening . While there have been several cases where ...
... approaches that apply across the climate law domain . in Australia . A fundamental question remains whether or not our courts and tribunals are willing to rule that climate change is happening . While there have been several cases where ...
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... approach when he observed : ' The year 1998 , selected as the starting point for the period of cooling , was ... approaches taken by Justices Dowsett and Pain and then by Chief Judge Preston and President Koppenol in these cases provide ...
... approach when he observed : ' The year 1998 , selected as the starting point for the period of cooling , was ... approaches taken by Justices Dowsett and Pain and then by Chief Judge Preston and President Koppenol in these cases provide ...
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... approach in 2007 in Massachusetts v Environmental Protection Agency . When the Agency ran the standard causation argument that its decision not to regulate the greenhouse emissions of new motor vehicles was inconse- quential , a ...
... approach in 2007 in Massachusetts v Environmental Protection Agency . When the Agency ran the standard causation argument that its decision not to regulate the greenhouse emissions of new motor vehicles was inconse- quential , a ...
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... approach - adopted , for example , by Justice Pearlman in the Redbank case - has been to apply the precautionary principle in such weak form that it has been of no consequence . The bluntest recognition of this phenomenon was by Justice ...
... approach - adopted , for example , by Justice Pearlman in the Redbank case - has been to apply the precautionary principle in such weak form that it has been of no consequence . The bluntest recognition of this phenomenon was by Justice ...
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... approach overlooks the significance of the discursive processes of norm formation in international politics . This dimension of regime formation is central to those who approach regimes from a constructivist perspective . Unlike ...
... approach overlooks the significance of the discursive processes of norm formation in international politics . This dimension of regime formation is central to those who approach regimes from a constructivist perspective . Unlike ...
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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