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 3
... groups led by the Australian Conservation Foundation challenging the extension of life of the Hazel- wood Power Station in Victoria may now be seen as a turning point - demonstrating how , even without legislative action , government ...
... groups led by the Australian Conservation Foundation challenging the extension of life of the Hazel- wood Power Station in Victoria may now be seen as a turning point - demonstrating how , even without legislative action , government ...
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... groups.16 At least for the moment , the prime focus of climate law in Australia is elsewhere . It is on the creation of effective , equitable measures for the reduction of greenhouse emissions or at least ensuring that these emissions ...
... groups.16 At least for the moment , the prime focus of climate law in Australia is elsewhere . It is on the creation of effective , equitable measures for the reduction of greenhouse emissions or at least ensuring that these emissions ...
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... group , the Anvil Hill Project Watch Asso- ciation , challenged a decision of the Commonwealth Government that the Anvil Hill mine did not require assessment under the EPBC Act because its emissions were ' relatively small ' compared to ...
... group , the Anvil Hill Project Watch Asso- ciation , challenged a decision of the Commonwealth Government that the Anvil Hill mine did not require assessment under the EPBC Act because its emissions were ' relatively small ' compared to ...
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... groups now employ the concept to mean just what they choose it to mean . Although originally intended by the WCED as a concept that would integrate the apparently conflicting goals of economic development and ecological integrity ...
... groups now employ the concept to mean just what they choose it to mean . Although originally intended by the WCED as a concept that would integrate the apparently conflicting goals of economic development and ecological integrity ...
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... Group on Emissions Trading is premised on Commonwealth legislation covering the field and excluding State laws , the strength or weakness with which the Commonwealth goes about implementing its scheme is particularly signi- ficant . The ...
... Group on Emissions Trading is premised on Commonwealth legislation covering the field and excluding State laws , the strength or weakness with which the Commonwealth goes about implementing its scheme is particularly signi- ficant . 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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