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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... Costs versus Benefits of Meeting the Kyoto Target for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions : The Australian Perspective ' Environmental and Planning Law Journal , vol 16 , 1999 , pp 53- 62 ; Christine Parker , ' The Greenhouse Challenge ...
... Costs versus Benefits of Meeting the Kyoto Target for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions : The Australian Perspective ' Environmental and Planning Law Journal , vol 16 , 1999 , pp 53- 62 ; Christine Parker , ' The Greenhouse Challenge ...
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... cost the company money ' , while also indicating that it wanted to reach an agreement with the council , was ' happy to talk ' by going into mediation in Hobart and might still meet the council's condition . Meanwhile the State ...
... cost the company money ' , while also indicating that it wanted to reach an agreement with the council , was ' happy to talk ' by going into mediation in Hobart and might still meet the council's condition . Meanwhile the State ...
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... cost to Redbank of $ 105,000 . One was simply a small financial contribution to the preparation of a Vegetation Rehabilitation Strategy for Singleton . Another was for the replacement of old willows with new native trees along a stretch ...
... cost to Redbank of $ 105,000 . One was simply a small financial contribution to the preparation of a Vegetation Rehabilitation Strategy for Singleton . Another was for the replacement of old willows with new native trees along a stretch ...
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... cost of climate change gives $ 9.1 billion'.41 When this issue arose in the Hazelwood case , Justice Morris found a sufficient nexus between the amendment to a local planning scheme designed to allow the power station to win more brown ...
... cost of climate change gives $ 9.1 billion'.41 When this issue arose in the Hazelwood case , Justice Morris found a sufficient nexus between the amendment to a local planning scheme designed to allow the power station to win more brown ...
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... cost to the future interest of Victorians ' of exten- ding the life of the Hazelwood power station . Justice Pain followed in the Anvil Hill case when she held that the NSW Government had acted unlawfully by disregarding ...
... cost to the future interest of Victorians ' of exten- ding the life of the Hazelwood power station . Justice Pain followed in the Anvil Hill case when she held that the NSW Government had acted unlawfully by disregarding ...
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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