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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... consider . A key ingredient in his argument was that the world's five warmest years on record had all been in the 1980s - a statistic then as disturbing as the current one that the 10 hottest years have all occurred since 1995.1 The ...
... consider . A key ingredient in his argument was that the world's five warmest years on record had all been in the 1980s - a statistic then as disturbing as the current one that the 10 hottest years have all occurred since 1995.1 The ...
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... book implies , is on the law in Australia . It both examines the current state of the law and considers its future directions whether through emissions trading or carbon taxes or geosequestration . It casts new light on 3 INTRODUCTION.
... book implies , is on the law in Australia . It both examines the current state of the law and considers its future directions whether through emissions trading or carbon taxes or geosequestration . It casts new light on 3 INTRODUCTION.
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... consider the greenhouse effect when applying the National Environmental Policy Act , and it had been dismissed for lack of standing.14 The Redbank case was the first in the world where standing was not an issue and a court had to consider ...
... consider the greenhouse effect when applying the National Environmental Policy Act , and it had been dismissed for lack of standing.14 The Redbank case was the first in the world where standing was not an issue and a court had to consider ...
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... consider along with the critique of the Stern Review by Dr Robert Carter and Sir Ian Byatt , which appeared well before the case but was not raised by the parties in argument . As President Koppenol explained it : The Carter - Byatt ...
... consider along with the critique of the Stern Review by Dr Robert Carter and Sir Ian Byatt , which appeared well before the case but was not raised by the parties in argument . As President Koppenol explained it : The Carter - Byatt ...
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... consider this aspect of Koppenol's decision was Justice Mackenzie . The judge implicitly recognized the flaw in Koppenol's approach when he observed : ' The year 1998 , selected as the starting point for the period of cooling , was ...
... consider this aspect of Koppenol's decision was Justice Mackenzie . The judge implicitly recognized the flaw in Koppenol's approach when he observed : ' The year 1998 , selected as the starting point for the period of cooling , was ...
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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