Just as climate change is now one of the dominant issues in Australian politics, so climate law has become one of the most significant areas of Australian law, attracting keen interest among all levels of government, the legal profession, many sectors of industry, environmental groups, academics and students. Climate Law in Australia is the first book of any substance which brings together a combination of senior and respected academic environmental lawyers, policy academics with a keen interest in the law, and environmental law practitioners who have been at the forefront of climate law in Australia.

The book covers the key areas of Australian climate law: the international framework, the place of greenhouse considerations in the main Commonwealth environmental legislation, greenhouse emissions reductions legislation, nuclear regulation, geosequestration regulation, carbon trading law and practice, climate change adaptation law and the main climate law cases to have been before the Australian courts over the last few years which primarily involve coal and wind.

Climate Law in Australia has considerable popular appeal as it covers topics which attract high levels of public and media interest in the futures of coal, emissions trading, renewable energy, and nuclear power. It combines scholarly research with clear prose in a way which make it accessible to the intelligent general reader.