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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... resulting in substantial action , and this failure to grapple with climate change accelerated under the Keating and then Howard Governments , with an emphasis on voluntary measures , an absence of firm national targets and the Howard ...
... resulting in substantial action , and this failure to grapple with climate change accelerated under the Keating and then Howard Governments , with an emphasis on voluntary measures , an absence of firm national targets and the Howard ...
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... result from reopening what had once been the biggest scheelite mine in the southern hemisphere.2 When King Island Scheelite submitted a development proposal and environmental management plan at the start of the year to allow it to ...
... result from reopening what had once been the biggest scheelite mine in the southern hemisphere.2 When King Island Scheelite submitted a development proposal and environmental management plan at the start of the year to allow it to ...
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... results of that investigation . The report is to contain detailed recommendations as to steps that will be taken to offset carbon emissions that are generated.9 This case appears to be the first example of any Australian government ...
... results of that investigation . The report is to contain detailed recommendations as to steps that will be taken to offset carbon emissions that are generated.9 This case appears to be the first example of any Australian government ...
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... result was a program with some local environmental and scenic benefits but of almost no consequence as a greenhouse ... resulting in five cases in the Land and Environment Court and another in the NSW Court of Appeal . The environmental ...
... result was a program with some local environmental and scenic benefits but of almost no consequence as a greenhouse ... resulting in five cases in the Land and Environment Court and another in the NSW Court of Appeal . The environmental ...
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... result for 1998 been treated as an aberrant spike , the period to 2006 would have demonstrated an increase over that period larger than the alleged cooling relied on by the President.'38 The different approaches taken by Justices ...
... result for 1998 been treated as an aberrant spike , the period to 2006 would have demonstrated an increase over that period larger than the alleged cooling relied on by the President.'38 The different approaches taken by Justices ...
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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