Sydney Law School: Recent submissions
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Is land-use planning being underutilised for ensuring the resilience of new electricity infrastructure?: An Australian case study
Published 2024Australia is a signatory to the Paris Agreement and has embarked upon a radical transformation of its electricity infrastructure to be achieved by 2030. This requires significant investment in new infrastructure including ...Open AccessArticle -
Coal seam gas in the context of global energy and climate change scenarios
Published 2012Coal seam gas (CSG) and other unconventional gases, such as shale gas, have been touted as delivering substantially fewer greenhouse gas emissions than coal. Further, the International Energy Agency has suggested that we ...Open AccessArticle -
Australia’s biodiversity and the bushfire climate catastrophe: Neoliberalism, causality, responsibility and recovery
Published 2024Australia's climate-induced bushfire disaster during the 2019–2020 summer devastated ecological and human communities. The wildfires burnt over 10 million hectares, including vegetation that rarely burns or is poorly adapted ...Open AccessArticle -
Australia's clean energy future package: Are we there yet?
Published 2011This article provides a detailed examination of the Clean Energy Future Package, including a comparison with the previously proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, and an analysis of the Jobs and Competitiveness Program.Open AccessArticle -
The new frontier of climate law: Reducing emissions from deforestation (and degradation)
Published 2008This article analyses the efforts of the international community to incorporate activities relating to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation (and Degradation) (RED(D)) within the international legal framework governing ...Open AccessArticle