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LAWS8051 - Climate Change Law

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Project description

Climate change is the outstanding environmental issue of our time. This is a specialised unit that analyses law and policy relevant to managing the problems presented by climate change. Both the causes and impacts of climate change are pervasive and present significant challenges to conventional legal approaches. The unit investigates the role of law in driving society�s response from the international law level through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Paris Agreement, to federal and state responses in terms of both legislation and judicial decisions to local scale actions. At each jurisdictional level, focus is given to law that relates to the major pillars of climate policy � mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage.

Year 2022

Location Australia

Organization Macquarie University

Project aims

Project outcome

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental bio-physical concepts of climate change, including its causes and impacts in the Anthropocene epoch, as a basis for understanding of the climate law framework 2. Identify and examine the challenges of managing environmental change in a context of uncertainty and how scientific information is translated into law 3. Critically analyse the development of climate legislation and climate litigation in Australia and overseas in order to express analytical and substantiated views about the effectiveness of the legal framework and use of litigation as a tool to assist with improved climate governance. 4. Critically analyse the history, current operation and future growth of the international climate law regime, recognizing the different perspectives of relevant groups of nation states from both the Global North and Global South 5. Evaluate perspectives from disciplines outside law in order to to understand how to approach climate law problem-solving from a multi-disciplinary perspective