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
... Principle : Perspectives and Prospects . Ron Levy worked as a solicitor with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service before going to work for the Northern Land Council in 1994. He is now the Land Council's Principal Legal Officer . Jan ...
... Principle : Perspectives and Prospects . Ron Levy worked as a solicitor with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service before going to work for the Northern Land Council in 1994. He is now the Land Council's Principal Legal Officer . Jan ...
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... principle and implemented fiscal and regulatory measures such as eco - taxes to increase the price of carbon - based fuels , a renewable energy feed - in tariff to accelerate the pace of the uptake of solar and wind technologies , and ...
... principle and implemented fiscal and regulatory measures such as eco - taxes to increase the price of carbon - based fuels , a renewable energy feed - in tariff to accelerate the pace of the uptake of solar and wind technologies , and ...
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... principles such as the precautionary principle and intergenerational equity to greenhouse emissions . Climate law equally concerns those laws which govern how we adapt to those climate changes which already appear to be happening and ...
... principles such as the precautionary principle and intergenerational equity to greenhouse emissions . Climate law equally concerns those laws which govern how we adapt to those climate changes which already appear to be happening and ...
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... principle in a substantial way into his reasoning but also became the first judge to make the precautionary principle the basis on which he stopped a development proceeding . The Redbank case had the same potential . The court could ...
... principle in a substantial way into his reasoning but also became the first judge to make the precautionary principle the basis on which he stopped a development proceeding . The Redbank case had the same potential . The court could ...
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... principles and approaches that apply across the climate law domain . in Australia . A fundamental question remains whether or not our courts and tribunals are willing to rule that climate change is happening . While there have been ...
... principles and approaches that apply across the climate law domain . in Australia . A fundamental question remains whether or not our courts and tribunals are willing to rule that climate change is happening . While there have been ...
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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