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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Page ix
... particular interest in the design of environmental regulation for scientific uncertainty . Her many publications include the 2006 collection of essays ( co - edited with Elizabeth Fisher and Rene von Schomberg ) Implementing the ...
... particular interest in the design of environmental regulation for scientific uncertainty . Her many publications include the 2006 collection of essays ( co - edited with Elizabeth Fisher and Rene von Schomberg ) Implementing the ...
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... particular cases have been shaped if not deter- mined by specific legislation and policies , we need to identify issues , principles and approaches that apply across the climate law domain . in Australia . A fundamental question remains ...
... particular cases have been shaped if not deter- mined by specific legislation and policies , we need to identify issues , principles and approaches that apply across the climate law domain . in Australia . A fundamental question remains ...
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... particular speed . While the Stern Review appeared as the case was being argued between September and November , the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC appeared after the hearing had concluded but before Chief Judge Preston delivered ...
... particular speed . While the Stern Review appeared as the case was being argued between September and November , the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC appeared after the hearing had concluded but before Chief Judge Preston delivered ...
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... particular regard to the need to reduce our greenhouse emissions ? To what extent do the principles being developed by Australia's courts and tribunals make a difference , even when the courts and tribunals acknowledge climate change ...
... particular regard to the need to reduce our greenhouse emissions ? To what extent do the principles being developed by Australia's courts and tribunals make a difference , even when the courts and tribunals acknowledge climate change ...
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... particular . The legislation did not ' mandate any particular method of analysis'.77 The outcome of the Xstrata case has been , if anything , even worse . When the Queensland Court of Appeal ruled in October 2007 that the decision of ...
... particular . The legislation did not ' mandate any particular method of analysis'.77 The outcome of the Xstrata case has been , if anything , even worse . When the Queensland Court of Appeal ruled in October 2007 that the decision of ...
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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