Climate Change Law and Policy in Australia

Climate Change Law and Policy in Australiais the only dedicated Australian climate change law and policy service, and one of the very few in the world. Updated online every other month, it provides an essential resource for all those in Australia concerned with climate change law and policy - with a particular focus on the corporate sector.

It also alerts subscribers when important climate change-related developments take place, and provides analysis of those developments.

The service contains 16 individual chapters written by 32 expert policy and specialist business and legal contributors.

While the service has a clear focus on climate change law and policy in Australia, it discuses climate change as a critical issue for business. With the likely defeat of the Commonwealth Carbon Pollution Reductions Scheme again in the Senate, and with proposed emissions trading schemes in retreat around the world, the service enables business subscribers to understand and anticipate the implications of likely climate change action at the Commonwealth and state levels, as well as understanding the international context of climate change and how businesses are dealing with climate change in other jurisdictions around the world. The service also examines the merits of instruments other than an emissions trading scheme - a carbon tax, for example, and direct regulation.

The service is edited by David Hodgkinson, with individual chapters written by expert policy and specialist legal contributors.

Important features

  • Accessible and practical analysis on this frequently changing area of law
    Extensive use of diagrams, illustrations, tables, case studies and examples are used to make often complex material more easily understandable.
  • Important for business in understanding the risks and opportunities climate change presents
    Disclosure and compliance issues are clearly explained.

 

Chapters of particular interest to the corporate sector

  • Mitigation of climate change
  • Commonwealth climate change law and policy
  • State and territory-based climate change law and policy
  • Climate change litigation
  • Carbon markets
  • Emissions trading
  • Business and climate change
  • Taxation and climate change


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Table of contents

Part  One - Commentary

  1. Introduction to climate change law and policy
  2. The science of climate change
  3. The UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol and post-Kyoto global climate change agreements
  4. Mitigation of climate change: the international context
  5. Commonwealth law and policy
  6. State and territory-based law and policy
  7. Local government and climate change
  8. Climate change litigation
  9. Carbon markets
  10. Emissions trading
  11. Carbon capture and storage
  12. Land use, forestry and native title
  13. Business and climate change
  14. Taxation and climate change
  15. Aviation and climate change
  16. Shipping and climate change

Part  Two - Materials

  1. Multilateral conventions, agreements and policy documents
  2. Australian materials
    (a) Commonwealth
    (b) States
    (c) Territories
    (d) Miscellaneous
    (e) Materials from other jurisdictions

Authors

General Editor
David Hodgkinson, general editor of Climate Change Law and Policy in Australia, is Special Counsel at Clayton Utz, a member of The Hodgkinson Group ・Aviation and Climate Change Advisors, and Executive Director of EcoCarbon, Inc. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Australia Law School. David was formerly Director of Legal Services at IATA, the organisation of the world痴 airlines, in Montreal. He is the co-author of 
Global Climate Change: Australian Law and Policy and other climate change publications, and leads an international project team which is working on a draft convention for persons displaced by climate change.

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