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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Page 4
... suggest that Australia may well be in breach of the Convention's provisions . For all the attention paid to the omission of a greenhouse trigger from the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act , Andrew Macintosh ...
... suggest that Australia may well be in breach of the Convention's provisions . For all the attention paid to the omission of a greenhouse trigger from the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act , Andrew Macintosh ...
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... suggested that the NSW Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme , once touted as ' the most ambitious energy efficiency scheme in the world ' , is seriously flawed because of its failure to pay sufficient regard to energy 25 THE NEW AUSTRALIAN ...
... suggested that the NSW Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme , once touted as ' the most ambitious energy efficiency scheme in the world ' , is seriously flawed because of its failure to pay sufficient regard to energy 25 THE NEW AUSTRALIAN ...
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... suggest that the United States ' and Australia's defection from Kyoto , which is directly linked to their exclusive commit- ment to the AP6 , stands as a major stumbling block to China and other major developing countries undertaking ...
... suggest that the United States ' and Australia's defection from Kyoto , which is directly linked to their exclusive commit- ment to the AP6 , stands as a major stumbling block to China and other major developing countries undertaking ...
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... suggests that on a best case scenario ( assuming widespread global use of the new technologies promoted by the partnership ) , the AP6 will lower the rate of increase of global emissions by 23 per cent by 2050 compared to business - as ...
... suggests that on a best case scenario ( assuming widespread global use of the new technologies promoted by the partnership ) , the AP6 will lower the rate of increase of global emissions by 23 per cent by 2050 compared to business - as ...
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... suggest that there is a significant distinction between ' consistency ' and ' complementarity'.35 They claim the former is stronger because it requires compatibility and no contradiction , whereas the latter is weaker and merely ...
... suggest that there is a significant distinction between ' consistency ' and ' complementarity'.35 They claim the former is stronger because it requires compatibility and no contradiction , whereas the latter is weaker and merely ...
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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