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2008
Annual Conference: Adapting to Climate Change - Law
and Policy
The CCLP convenes an annual climate law conference.
The inaugural conference, Climate Law in Australia,
was held in 2007 at the National Museum of Australia
in Canberra. The papers from the conference are available
in T. Bonyhady and P. Christoff (eds.), Climate Law
in Australia, The Federation Press, Sydney, New South
Wales, 2007.
The 2008 conference, Adapting
to Climate Change – Law and Policy,
was organised by Prof. Tim Bonyhady and Andrew Macintosh
in collaboration with Prof. Jan McDonald of Griffith
University.
Organised by ANU Centre for Climate Law & Policy
and the Griffith
University Socio-Legal Research Centre.
Supported by Baker
& McKenzie lawyers - founding sponsor of the
ANU Centre for Climate Law & Policy.
Date: 19 and 20 June 2008
Conference topics included:
- developments in adaptation case law;
- designing policy frameworks for optimal levels
of adaptation;
- the capacity of the law to adjust to abrupt climatic
changes;
- urban planning laws and adaptation;
- adaptation and water law; and
- restructuring biodiversity laws for a warming
world.
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Full Program (PDF)
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