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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... 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 emissions ? Will ...
... 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 emissions ? Will ...
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... green diplomacy network to enhance dealings with developing countries . See < http://ec.europa.eu/comm/external_relations/env/gdn/index . htm > . 4 The greenhouse trigger : Where did it go and 45 THE KYOTO PROTOCOL AND THE AP6.
... green diplomacy network to enhance dealings with developing countries . See < http://ec.europa.eu/comm/external_relations/env/gdn/index . htm > . 4 The greenhouse trigger : Where did it go and 45 THE KYOTO PROTOCOL AND THE AP6.
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... greenhouse trigger ' has played a prominent role in the national global warming debate . Along with the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol , the greenhouse trigger has become a marker of policy on climate change . Those who are ...
... greenhouse trigger ' has played a prominent role in the national global warming debate . Along with the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol , the greenhouse trigger has become a marker of policy on climate change . Those who are ...
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Tim Bonyhady, Peter Christoff. A short history of the greenhouse trigger The beginning - late 1990s to August 2000 The greenhouse trigger was first proposed in the context of the deli- berations over , and inquiries into , the EPBC Bill ...
Tim Bonyhady, Peter Christoff. A short history of the greenhouse trigger The beginning - late 1990s to August 2000 The greenhouse trigger was first proposed in the context of the deli- berations over , and inquiries into , the EPBC Bill ...
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... greenhouse trigger in the EPBC Act without consulting the States was that it would contravene the terms of the COAG Heads of Agreement on Commonwealth and State roles and responsibilities for the Environment that was signed in 1997 ...
... greenhouse trigger in the EPBC Act without consulting the States was that it would contravene the terms of the COAG Heads of Agreement on Commonwealth and State roles and responsibilities for the Environment that was signed in 1997 ...
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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