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Cassandra Pickering, Evgeny Guglyuvatyy

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 13 (2019), Issue 3, Page 195 - 207

Australian climate policy has a relatively long and uneven history. Australia joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and signed the Kyoto Protocol enthusiastically supporting greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction. A range of measures aimed at reducing Australia’s GHG emissions have been on the agenda at both the Federal and State level. Some of these measures were successfully implemented, some were introduced and then repealed and some never reached the implementation stage. Australian legislation governing forests is mostly State or Territory-based. The major policy regulating land clearing and deforestation in the Australian State of Queensland is the Vegetation Management Act 1999 (Qld) (VMA). This article examines the recent amendments to the VMA 1999 and whether these amendments will interact with the Reef 2050 Plan effectively. The effectiveness of the VMA is discussed to draw conclusions about potential reforms that should be considered to limit land clearing and deforestation in Australia thus minimising negative impact on the Great Barrier Reef.

Evgeny Guglyuvatyy

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 11 (2017), Issue 1, Page 50 - 63

Concerns for justice are widely considered in international climate negotiations as central to effective responses to climate change. However, there is debate as to what crucial notions of justice need to be reflected in a global climate change treaty. This study uses the Delphi method to identify the climate justice concepts that would be most appropriate for the global climate treaty from an Australian perspective. It is contended that the Delphi method, which allows future forecasting based on the consensus feedback of an expert panel, is the best technique to advance a defensible action plan to ensure climate justice.

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