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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... significant because they reached far beyond a narrow legal audience , one of Australia's foremost environmental lawyers , Rob Fowler , considered an array of key issues including the need for an international climate change convention ...
... significant because they reached far beyond a narrow legal audience , one of Australia's foremost environmental lawyers , Rob Fowler , considered an array of key issues including the need for an international climate change convention ...
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... significant policy measures or legislation 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 ...
... significant policy measures or legislation 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 ...
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... significant forums for testing the law , trying to ensure better decisions and drawing attention to the weakness of government policy . But the extent of the new climate case law is striking . No other environmental issue in Australia ...
... significant forums for testing the law , trying to ensure better decisions and drawing attention to the weakness of government policy . But the extent of the new climate case law is striking . No other environmental issue in Australia ...
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... significant 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 ...
... significant 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 ...
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... significant tree planting on King Island due to a change in its planning regime initiated before King Island Scheelite sought permission for its mine . In a Tasmanian first - reputed to have enraged the Commonwealth's Minister for ...
... significant tree planting on King Island due to a change in its planning regime initiated before King Island Scheelite sought permission for its mine . In a Tasmanian first - reputed to have enraged the Commonwealth's Minister for ...
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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