Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonisation in Australia

Following on the publication of Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States, the groundbreaking text on which the LPDD project was founded, our team has encouraged legal experts from other countries to prepare parallel volumes for their jurisdictions. This text, Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonisation in Australia, aims to offer a useful resource to government officials, energy industry (both fossil and renewable) executives, and environmental and climate advocates seeking a legal roadmap for reducing Australian greenhouse gas emissions.

While a number of technologies and other methods are available to achieve radical reductions in greenhouse gas emissions (most but not all involving energy efficiency, fuel switching, and decarbonised electricity), there are numerous legal impediments to implementing these technologies and methods at the necessary scale and speed. Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonisation in Australia identifies these impediments and analyses ways to surmount them. Policy makers and lawyers can then pursue these legal pathways and allow clean technology and other methods to achieve their potential.

The text varies in structure from its American predecessor, including a number of interesting Australia-specific considerations, such as First Nations perspectives, Human Rights, Active Transport, and Corporate Governance.