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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... 7 Emissions reduction targets legislation 103 Rob Fowler Chapter 8 The adaptation imperative : Managing the legal risks of climate change impacts Jan McDonald 124 Chapter 9 Geosequestration law in Australia AM Warburton , JA.
... 7 Emissions reduction targets legislation 103 Rob Fowler Chapter 8 The adaptation imperative : Managing the legal risks of climate change impacts Jan McDonald 124 Chapter 9 Geosequestration law in Australia AM Warburton , JA.
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... risks and opportunities arising out of international and regional climate change regulation . Dr James Prest is a member of the Australian National University's College of Law . Since working as a legal policy officer in the Department ...
... risks and opportunities arising out of international and regional climate change regulation . Dr James Prest is a member of the Australian National University's College of Law . Since working as a legal policy officer in the Department ...
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... 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 vagueness of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , Peter ...
... 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 vagueness of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , Peter ...
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... risk of the courts washing their hands of the issue by saying it was a matter of high policy for someone else which would mean that nothing would be done to address climate change . He dwelt on the danger that each addition to our ...
... risk of the courts washing their hands of the issue by saying it was a matter of high policy for someone else which would mean that nothing would be done to address climate change . He dwelt on the danger that each addition to our ...
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... taken the risk of acting on the lease over the following seven months when it was patent , as soon as the Queensland Conservation Council challenged Koppenol's decision , that this appeal was 23 THE NEW AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE LAW.
... taken the risk of acting on the lease over the following seven months when it was patent , as soon as the Queensland Conservation Council challenged Koppenol's decision , that this appeal was 23 THE NEW AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE LAW.
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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