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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... major problems not just of the decade but also of the coming century which lawyers needed to consider . A key ingredient in his argument was that the world's five warmest years on record had all been in the 1980s - a statistic then as ...
... major problems not just of the decade but also of the coming century which lawyers needed to consider . A key ingredient in his argument was that the world's five warmest years on record had all been in the 1980s - a statistic then as ...
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... major political issue in Australia started only in 2006. As widely recognised , the most severe drought since European settlement , possibly presaging a long - term transformation of precipitation patterns across the continent , has ...
... major political issue in Australia started only in 2006. As widely recognised , the most severe drought since European settlement , possibly presaging a long - term transformation of precipitation patterns across the continent , has ...
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... major conference on climate law in Australia held in Canberra in April 2007 , explores many of these areas . While it addresses the international dimension of climate law , its main focus , as the title of the book implies , is on the ...
... major conference on climate law in Australia held in Canberra in April 2007 , explores many of these areas . While it addresses the international dimension of climate law , its main focus , as the title of the book implies , is on the ...
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... major political parties at a 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 ...
... major political parties at a 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 ...
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... major political parties displays any urgency about taking substantial policy or legislative action . Notes 1 Ninian Stephen , ' Climatic Change and the Greenhouse Effect ' AMPLA Yearbook , 1991 , pp 1-5 . 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Robert J Fowler ...
... major political parties displays any urgency about taking substantial policy or legislative action . Notes 1 Ninian Stephen , ' Climatic Change and the Greenhouse Effect ' AMPLA Yearbook , 1991 , pp 1-5 . 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Robert J Fowler ...
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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