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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... climate law viii xi 1 8 Tim Bonyhady Chapter 3 Kyoto and the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate 32 Peter Christoff & Robyn Eckersley Chapter 4 The greenhouse trigger : Where did it go and what of its future ...
... climate law viii xi 1 8 Tim Bonyhady Chapter 3 Kyoto and the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate 32 Peter Christoff & Robyn Eckersley Chapter 4 The greenhouse trigger : Where did it go and what of its future ...
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... greenhouse trigger from the Howard Government's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the provisions for targets in South Australia's Climate Change and Greenhouse Emissions Reductions Act 2007. It provides ...
... greenhouse trigger from the Howard Government's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the provisions for targets in South Australia's Climate Change and Greenhouse Emissions Reductions Act 2007. It provides ...
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... greenhouse emissions . While the condition does not explicitly require the ... greenhouse gases , should State governments be able to implement tougher ... trigger in its main environmental protection legislation ; become the only ...
... greenhouse emissions . While the condition does not explicitly require the ... greenhouse gases , should State governments be able to implement tougher ... trigger in its main environmental protection legislation ; become the only ...
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... greenhouse trigger but also to provide an adequate framework for dealing with cumulative impacts.53 As the exp- lanatory memorandum accompanying the initial legislation put it , the EPBC Act was not expected to apply where ' an action ...
... greenhouse trigger but also to provide an adequate framework for dealing with cumulative impacts.53 As the exp- lanatory memorandum accompanying the initial legislation put it , the EPBC Act was not expected to apply where ' an action ...
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... greenhouse consequences of mining - ignoring the greenhouse effects of burning the coal - was duly rectified by the ... trigger in the EPBC Act would ensure that ' people like Justice Nicola Pain could effectively stop any coal mine ...
... greenhouse consequences of mining - ignoring the greenhouse effects of burning the coal - was duly rectified by the ... trigger in the EPBC Act would ensure that ' people like Justice Nicola Pain could effectively stop any coal mine ...
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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