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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... existing legal framework to create a web of regulations and supporting measures , contributing to significant reductions in emissions . In Germany , for instance , successive conservative and progressive national govern- ments since the ...
... existing legal framework to create a web of regulations and supporting measures , contributing to significant reductions in emissions . In Germany , for instance , successive conservative and progressive national govern- ments since the ...
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... existing areas of native vegetation and existing agricultural land so as to maximise the area available for production of the island's internationally renowned cheese and beef.5 The State government ignored these flaws . When Tasmania's ...
... existing areas of native vegetation and existing agricultural land so as to maximise the area available for production of the island's internationally renowned cheese and beef.5 The State government ignored these flaws . When Tasmania's ...
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... 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 be touched by this ' . It ' could potentially have an impact ...
... 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 be touched by this ' . It ' could potentially have an impact ...
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... existing statutory frameworks so that they have more or less bite in relation to greenhouse emissions ? Will the Commonwealth do anything to regulate greenhouse emissions in this period - most obviously by including a general greenhouse ...
... existing statutory frameworks so that they have more or less bite in relation to greenhouse emissions ? Will the Commonwealth do anything to regulate greenhouse emissions in this period - most obviously by including a general greenhouse ...
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... existing blast furnaces and build a new gas - powered electricity generation plant . To secure this investment , which may reduce the company's greenhouse emissions by between 700,000 and 900,000 tonnes a year , the government ...
... existing blast furnaces and build a new gas - powered electricity generation plant . To secure this investment , which may reduce the company's greenhouse emissions by between 700,000 and 900,000 tonnes a year , the government ...
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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