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The Centre for Climate Law and Policy (CCLP) is part of the ANU College of Law. It was established in 2007 with the objective of providing a focal point for law and policy research related to climate change. The CCLP also runs courses in climate law and provides consulting services.

The Director of the CCLP is Professor Tim Bonyhady and the Associate Director is Andrew Macintosh. Other ANU staff associated with the Centre include Don Anton, Brad Jessup, Judith Jones, James Prest and Matthew Zagor.

The CCLP’s areas of interest include the following.

• International climate law
• Adaptation law and policy
• The regulatory framework for emissions trading schemes
• Renewable energy laws
• Climate litigation
• The regulation of transport emissions
• Controlling emissions from land use, land use change and forestry
• Environmental assessment and climate change
• The politics of climate law
• Relationship between federal, state and local climate measures
• Human rights and climate change

Courses
Courses offered at the ANU College of Law on climate law and policy include the following.

• Australian Climate Law
• International Climate Law

For other environment related courses, see the Australian Centre for Environmental Law.

FOUNDING SPONSOR

For more than a decade, Baker & McKenzie has been at the forefront in the development of global carbon markets and climate law and policy. Beyond its work on major international carbon transactions and projects, Baker & McKenzie’s team has maintained a commitment to undertaking capacity-building work in developing countries, where it has advised on the development of climate law and policy to national governments and on behalf of international organisations. Baker & McKenzie is recognised as the global leader in helping clients meet their corporate social responsibility obligations. The firm has also developed the CDM Rulebook - a comprehensive public online database addressing the CDM rules under the Kyoto Protocol. Baker & McKenzie are guided by a culture of integrity, personal responsibility, friendship and tenacious client service. Baker & McKenzie delivers the broad scope of quality legal services required to respond to any business need-consistently, confidently and with sensitivity for cultural, social and legal practice differences.

Baker & McKenzie is proud to be the Founding Sponsor of the Climate Change Law and Policy Centre.

- More about Baker & McKenzie
- Profile of Baker & McKenzie Climate Practice

Contact details:

For enquiries about the Global Climate Change Practice please contact: Martijn Wilder on +61 2 8922 5276

For media enquiries please contact: Elizabeth Gray on + 61 2 8922 5726

For student and graduate employment opportunities please contact: Hayley Pickering on + 61 2 8922 5429

NEWS

WORKING PAPER SERIES

• Article by Owen Cordes-Holland, Climate-change case could pay for Islanders (Canberra Times, April 2009)
• Public lecture - Martijn Wilder, 10 December 2008
  Climate Policy, Carbon Markets and Melting Ice Caps in a Time of Global Economic Turmoil -  Audio   MP3
• The Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, yesterday announced seven new ‘adaptation research networks’ to foster research into the effects of climate change. The ANU Centre for Cliamte Change and Policy was part of the successful bid led by the University of Melbourne to run the Social, Economic and Institutional Dimenstions Network (October 2008)
• Dr James Prest gives evidence to Senate Inquiry into Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff Bill
• Public Lecture - Professor W. Michael Hanemann: 13 August 2008
  A NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR DOMESTIC CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY: TRADING, TAX OR TECHNOLOGY -  Audio    MP3
• LAUNCH OF THE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE LAW AND POLICY
  Friday 6 June 2008
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more news

CCLP Working Paper Series 2009/1 No. 6
Keeping Warming Within the 2°C Limit After Copenhagen

CCLP Working Paper No. 4
- Garnaut's Targets and Trajectories: A Critique

CCLP Working Paper No. 3
- Climate Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

CCLP Working Paper No. 2
- Overcoming the barriers to international aviation greenhouse gas emissions abatement

CCLP Working Paper No. 1
- International aviation emissions to 2025: Can emissions be stabilised without restricting demand?