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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... the Hawke Government not only agreed to the aspirational target , set by the Toronto Conference on Climate Change , to reduce national carbon dioxide emissions to 20 per cent below 1988 levels by 2005 1 Chapter Introduction.
... the Hawke Government not only agreed to the aspirational target , set by the Toronto Conference on Climate Change , to reduce national carbon dioxide emissions to 20 per cent below 1988 levels by 2005 1 Chapter Introduction.
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... cent below 1990 levels , while in the UK emissions have been reduced to 14 per cent below 1990 levels.7 The emergence of climate change as a major political issue in Australia started only in 2006. As widely recognised , the most severe ...
... cent below 1990 levels , while in the UK emissions have been reduced to 14 per cent below 1990 levels.7 The emergence of climate change as a major political issue in Australia started only in 2006. As widely recognised , the most severe ...
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... cent ' . 7 The problem was that the council almost certainly lacked the power to impose this condition because Tasmanian legislation specified that , when a development application also required the approval of the Board of ...
... cent ' . 7 The problem was that the council almost certainly lacked the power to impose this condition because Tasmanian legislation specified that , when a development application also required the approval of the Board of ...
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... cent but in fact will be more like 0.5 per cent ; and enter into the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate which is a voluntary framework for coopera- tion rather than a formal treaty containing binding targets ...
... cent but in fact will be more like 0.5 per cent ; and enter into the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate which is a voluntary framework for coopera- tion rather than a formal treaty containing binding targets ...
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... cent of global greenhouse gas emissions globally ' , according to the mine's proponent , Centennial Coal . But as a NZ Board of Inquiry noted in a passage quoted by the country's Environment Court in 2005 , ' a small proportion of 16 ...
... cent of global greenhouse gas emissions globally ' , according to the mine's proponent , Centennial Coal . But as a NZ Board of Inquiry noted in a passage quoted by the country's Environment Court in 2005 , ' a small proportion of 16 ...
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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