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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... Relation to Waterfront Land ' Environmental and Planning Law Journal , vol 20 , 2003 , pp 406-422 ; Rosemary Lyster , ' Common but Differentiated ? Australia's Response to Global Climate Change ' Georgetown International Environmental ...
... Relation to Waterfront Land ' Environmental and Planning Law Journal , vol 20 , 2003 , pp 406-422 ; Rosemary Lyster , ' Common but Differentiated ? Australia's Response to Global Climate Change ' Georgetown International Environmental ...
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... relation to environmental and resource legislation enacted without any 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 ...
... relation to environmental and resource legislation enacted without any 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 ...
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... relation to downstream emissions . Even more remarkably , the government imposed minimal requirements on the company when it came to reducing and monitoring the emissions directly generated by the project . The government's lack of ...
... relation to downstream emissions . Even more remarkably , the government imposed minimal requirements on the company when it came to reducing and monitoring the emissions directly generated by the project . The government's lack of ...
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... relation to greenhouse emissions ? Will the Commonwealth do anything to regulate greenhouse emissions in this period - most obviously by including a general greenhouse trigger in its EPBC Act or by targeting particular sources of ...
... relation to greenhouse emissions ? Will the Commonwealth do anything to regulate greenhouse emissions in this period - most obviously by including a general greenhouse trigger in its EPBC Act or by targeting particular sources of ...
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... relation to the approval of new power sources but also new processes such as geosequestration . The result almost ... relationship between the market and regulation . Meanwhile , climate law is being made in a very diverse array of ...
... relation to the approval of new power sources but also new processes such as geosequestration . The result almost ... relationship between the market and regulation . Meanwhile , climate law is being made in a very diverse array 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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