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 vi
... Federal Court 173 Kirsty Ruddock Chapter 12 The limits of judicial review : Anvil Hill in the Land and Environment Court 189 David Farrier Chapter 13 The Xstrata case : Pyhrric victory or harbinger ? 214 Chris McGrath Chapter 14 The ...
... Federal Court 173 Kirsty Ruddock Chapter 12 The limits of judicial review : Anvil Hill in the Land and Environment Court 189 David Farrier Chapter 13 The Xstrata case : Pyhrric victory or harbinger ? 214 Chris McGrath Chapter 14 The ...
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... Federal Court of Australia and practiced corporate law for three years with the firm Cleary , Gottlieb , Steen and Hamilton in New York and Brussels . Tim Bonyhady is the Director of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law at the ...
... Federal Court of Australia and practiced corporate law for three years with the firm Cleary , Gottlieb , Steen and Hamilton in New York and Brussels . Tim Bonyhady is the Director of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law at the ...
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... federal government and the States but opted instead to talk about climate change . The former justice of the High Court , then serving as Australia's Ambassador for the Environment , set out to convince his audience that , while climate ...
... federal government and the States but opted instead to talk about climate change . The former justice of the High Court , then serving as Australia's Ambassador for the Environment , set out to convince his audience that , while climate ...
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... federal election has made the policy and legal response to climate change even more of an issue . The new field of ' climate law ' which has begun exciting attention in this context , extends beyond new legislation directly aimed at ...
... federal election has made the policy and legal response to climate change even more of an issue . The new field of ' climate law ' which has begun exciting attention in this context , extends beyond new legislation directly aimed at ...
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... federal level is such that there is a significant risk that they will introduce inadequate measures which should not be allowed to stymie stronger State and local responses . While much has been made of the vagueness of the United ...
... federal level is such that there is a significant risk that they will introduce inadequate measures which should not be allowed to stymie stronger State and local responses . While much has been made of the vagueness of the United ...
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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