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. |
From inside the book
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Page 4
... effective , equitable measures for the reduction of greenhouse emissions or at least ensuring that these emissions are offset in a credible fashion . Yet as the chapter in this book by Jan Macdonald shows , it also needs to extend ...
... effective , equitable measures for the reduction of greenhouse emissions or at least ensuring that these emissions are offset in a credible fashion . Yet as the chapter in this book by Jan Macdonald shows , it also needs to extend ...
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... effective means of making an issue of global warming and fixing public attention on the failure of government to act ? Do these proceedings , even when they result in findings that government has failed to take proper account of ...
... effective means of making an issue of global warming and fixing public attention on the failure of government to act ? Do these proceedings , even when they result in findings that government has failed to take proper account of ...
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... effectively stop any coal mine , or in fact could close down existing coal mines if they were seeking to change their operations'.68 The NSW Minister for Planning , Frank Sartor declared , ' Don't underestimate how many industries could ...
... effectively stop any coal mine , or in fact could close down existing coal mines if they were seeking to change their operations'.68 The NSW Minister for Planning , Frank Sartor declared , ' Don't underestimate how many industries could ...
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... effective climate controls . Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - Tim Bonyhady , The Colonial Earth , Miegunyah Press , Melbourne , 2000 , p 6 . House of Representatives Standing Committee on Transport and Regional Services Hansard , 26 February ...
... effective climate controls . Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - Tim Bonyhady , The Colonial Earth , Miegunyah Press , Melbourne , 2000 , p 6 . House of Representatives Standing Committee on Transport and Regional Services Hansard , 26 February ...
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... effective and fairer . Even more ambiguously , in a briefing on the AP6 in Washington DC in January 2006 shortly before the Sydney meeting , US Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs , Paula Dobriansky described the ...
... effective and fairer . Even more ambiguously , in a briefing on the AP6 in Washington DC in January 2006 shortly before the Sydney meeting , US Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs , Paula Dobriansky described the ...
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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