Environmental Law
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Why Celeste Barber's bushfire fundraiser is more complicated than it seems
Michael Eburn quoted in ABC News
Legal expert says pill testing can be done without breaking law
Michael Eburn speaks with ABC
Australian cities are declaring a 'climate emergency', but does that actually mean anything?
Michael Eburn speaks with ABC
Rural Victoria's power networks set to buckle under weight of wind energy
James Prest interviewed by ABC Landline
Towards Sustainocene: Challenging but Promising
cited in Advanced Science News
Australia criticised as Japan attempts to resume commercial whaling
Donald Rothwell quoted in The Guardian
New reports slam NEG as “renewables killer” designed for “short-term” politics
James Prest quoted in Renew Economy
NEG will fail to lift investor confidence
James Prest quoted in Sydney Morning Herald
Japan seeking to adjust rules of International Whaling Convention
Donald Rothwell interviewed by ABC News 24
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Advancing energy sustainability by governance leadership in artificial photosynthesis
- Nate Lewis, Caltech
- Chennupati Jagadish, ANU
- Dohyung Kim, Berkeley
- James Blackmore, Kansas
This workshop builds upon unique Australian interdisciplinary research and collaborations to develop novel approaches to governance leadership in the frontier renewable energy technology of artificial photosynthesis (making fuels, food and fertilizer from sunlight, water, atmospheric nitrogen and carbon dioxide).
Oral presentation - Ecologically sustainable development: Success in principle, failure in policy
- Peter Burnett
Peter Burnett has been researching Australia’s national policies on Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD).
Understanding transformation/paradigm shift in climate adaptation law through analysing knowledge construction
- Paul Govind
Building a more effective system of climate law starts with questioning knowledge construction at its base. To provide effective adaptation solutions a modern iteration of climate law (especially conceived at the international level) needs to respond to the complexity of impacts that are characteristically contextual and localized in nature.
Constitutional Protection for Political Protests: Brown v Tasmania
- Bob Brown, The Bob Brown Foundation
- A/Prof Amelia Simpson, ANU College of Law
The Centre for International and Public Law and The Australia Institute are pleased to host a discussion of the High Court’s decision in Brown v Tasmania [2017] HCA 43.
Japan-Australia energy dialogue
There is an urgent need to redesign energy policy and law in Australia and Japan in order to promote innovation and achieve deep decarbonisation. This is necessary to meet the Paris Agreement targets which include zero net emissions shortly after 2050.
The Annual Kirby Lecture on International Law - The duality of water: Conflict or co-operation
- Justice Melissa Perry, Federal Court of Australia
Water is key to the existence of life. From the nourishment of our physical selves, to sanitation, health, agriculture, and energy production our existence and way of life depends upon access to adequate and reliable supplies of fresh-water.
Twenty Years of the EPBC Act – looking back, looking forward
Join the National Environmental Law Association and ANU College of Law for a timely discussion of our national environmental laws.
LRSJ Seminar: Access to Justice and the Rule of Law
- The Hon Justice Rachel Pepper
Join Justice Rachel Pepper (BA ’91, LLB (Hons) ’94),, Judge of the Land and Environment Court of NSW, as she explores access to justice and the rule of law.
