Climate Change, Forests and Federalism

Climate change is one of the most serious global challenges facing humankind. Climate change has enormous environmental and economic implications, and finding a solution is a daunting task. The purpose of this book is to look at the global problem of climate change through the prism of an individual country's attempt to tackle this problem.

This book begins with a discussion of the origins of climate change and the evolution of the international response to climate change. Key climate change mitigation actions and policies are considered to provide the necessary framework for analysing Australia's approach to climate change. Australia's climate change policy development is considered from a historical perspective. The book traces the evolution of the response to climate change, focusing on Australia as one of the Federal countries unable to adequately reduce greenhouse gas emissions due to the systematic failure of the Australian government to develop a common and effective approach to the problem of climate change.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students of environmental law and the contemporary International and Australian climate change law.

Discusses the international climate law framework as well as climate regime of Australia Provides a discussion centered on forest policy as an important element of the Australian approach to GHG mitigation Uniquely covers a substantial amount of the Climate Law and Policy (SCU) as well as Climate Law and Carbon Markets (UTS) units' material and it could be recommended as a textbook for these units.

Autorentext
Dr. Evgeny Guglyuvatyy specialises in climate change and forest law, as well as tax law. His PhD from the University of New South Wales was a comparative study of climate change policies with focus on carbon tax and emissions trading. He also holds a Master's degree in law from the University of Nottingham and a Bachelor's Honours degree in law from the Chelyabinsk State University. Evgeny's teaching and research experience spans over number of years at various Universities including: the University of New South Wales, the University of Technology Sydney, Southern Cross University and others. He has researched and published extensively in climate change, forests and taxation law. He was a research fellow at Singapore Management University, Tax Academy, Centre for Excellence in Taxation and has served as a reviewer for various international and Australian journals.

Inhalt

Preface.- Chapter 1. Climate Change and International response.- Chapter 2. Climate Change mitigation.- Chapter 3. Australia and Climate Change.- Chapter 4. Australian Forests and Climate Change.- Index.