Energy Law and the Environment [Paperback]

This 2006 book shows the relevance of energy production and consumption to climate change and sustainable development.Energy Law and the Environment, first published in 2006, shows the relevance of energy production and consumption to climate change and sustainable development. The book offers creative legal solutions to enhancing the role of the law in advancing sustainable development in the future.Energy Law and the Environment, first published in 2006, shows the relevance of energy production and consumption to climate change and sustainable development. The book offers creative legal solutions to enhancing the role of the law in advancing sustainable development in the future.Unsustainable practices worldwide in energy production and consumption have led to a plethora of environmental problems. Until recently environmental law largely overlooked the relevance of energy production and consumption; energy was seen to be of little significance to the advancement of sustainable development. This has changed since 2000 with the global concern attached to climate change, the publication by the United Nations of the World Energy Assessment and the detailed consideration given to this issue at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. Australia has been seen to be lagging behind the other major industrialised nations of the world in addressing sustainable energy issues. This book was first published in 2006.1. Overview of energy production and use in Australia; 2. Energy technologies and sustainable development; 3. Energy, international environmental law and sustainable development; 4. Evaluating Australian government initiatives relating to energy, climate change and the environment; 5. Sustainable energy in the Australian electricity and gas sectors; 6. State government initiatives relating to energy and the environment; 7. A sustainable energy law future for Australia.