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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... benefits of acting early rather than late , as argued by the Stern Review in 2006 - has been another . Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth has similarly played a vital role as has widespread media coverage , in 2007 , of the findings ...
... benefits of acting early rather than late , as argued by the Stern Review in 2006 - has been another . Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth has similarly played a vital role as has widespread media coverage , in 2007 , of the findings ...
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... benefits as well as act as a greenhouse sink ? The Singleton Council came up with eight different schemes involving areas ranging from three to 10 hectares and Redbank selected - and the council agreed - to proceed with three of them at ...
... benefits as well as act as a greenhouse sink ? The Singleton Council came up with eight different schemes involving areas ranging from three to 10 hectares and Redbank selected - and the council agreed - to proceed with three of them at ...
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... with key developing countries and the private sector , focuses on practical outcomes , and promises economic and environmental benefits.5 Yet the 32 Chapter 3 Kyoto and the Asia Pacific Partnership Clean Development and Climate.
... with key developing countries and the private sector , focuses on practical outcomes , and promises economic and environmental benefits.5 Yet the 32 Chapter 3 Kyoto and the Asia Pacific Partnership Clean Development and Climate.
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Tim Bonyhady, Peter Christoff. outcomes , and promises economic and environmental benefits.5 Yet the remaining members of the partnership - all of which have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and one of which ( Japan , as an Annex 1 nation ) ...
Tim Bonyhady, Peter Christoff. outcomes , and promises economic and environmental benefits.5 Yet the remaining members of the partnership - all of which have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and one of which ( Japan , as an Annex 1 nation ) ...
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... benefit of present and future generations of humankind , on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities . Accordingly , the developed country parties should ...
... benefit of present and future generations of humankind , on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities . Accordingly , the developed country parties should ...
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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