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Chasing Down the Climate Change Footprint of the Public and Private Sectors : Forces Converge - Part II

Lyster, Rosemary - 2014

around the world, with the imprimatur of the Kyoto Protocol, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The emissions trading … Emissions Trading Scheme and the two different schemes proposed for Australia. The state of the world carbon market … carbon trading. The liquidity and efficiency of the world carbon market will depend to a large extent on the ability to link …

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'Novel Food for Thought' on Law and Policymaking in the Global Creative Economy

Neuwirth, Rostam J. - 2014

Law and policymaking form a central theme of the global governance debate. In these times of an emerging global creative economy the debate is becoming increasingly complex as global governance is faced with serious challenges of a political, economic, cultural, environmental, social,...

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Ocean Acidification

Stephens, Tim - 2016

Ocean acidification, the changing chemistry of the oceans as they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, is likely to transform many aspects of the global marine environment by mid century, with severe impacts expected for calcifying organisms. This chapter examines how ocean acidification...

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Coal Seam Gas in the Context of Global Energy and Climate Change Scenarios

Lyster, Rosemary - 2013

This article places the current controversy around coal seam gas production in Australia in the context of various global energy resources and climate change scenarios. It highlights the range of concerns that have arisen in Australia with regard to this resource including threats to water, farm...

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Food for Thought : Genetically Modified Seeds as De Facto Standard Essential Patents

Vacca, Ryan G.; Cole, Benjamin M.; Horton, Brent J. - 2015

For several years, courts have been improperly calculating damages in cases involving the unlicensed use of genetically-modified (GM) seed technology. In particular, when courts determine patent damages based on the hypothetical negotiation method, they err in exaggerating these damages to a...

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Kyoto is Dead, Long Live Kyoto! A New Era for International Climate Change Law

Stephens, Tim - 2014

As the implications of anthropogenic climate change are better understood the pressure builds for more effective legal and policy responses at national and international levels. With climate change looming as an existential threat, climate change law ought not to be characterised merely as a...

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Chasing Down the Climate Change Footprint of the Public and Private Sectors : Forces Converge - Part I

Lyster, Rosemary - 2014

In this article, the author draws attention to the fact that the climate change net is being drawn increasingly tighter around the public and private sectors in order to chase down their climate change footprint. Set in the context of the Stern Review Report and the 2007 IPCC Reports, the author...

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The Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage Sites : Environmental Law and Adaptation

Gruber, Stefan - 2014

Climate change poses a severe threat to many cultural heritage sites. Threats include floods, increasing extreme weather events, desertification, deterioration of permafrost, and the decay of cultural landscapes. Protecting cultural heritage sites proves to be very difficult as they are very...

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The Middle East : Climate Change, Water Insecurity and Hydrodiplomacy

Kornfeld, Itzchak E. - 2015

. This lack of exploration is surprising, particularly given the negative impacts ‎of climate change upon the world's water … minimum per capita threshold as set forth by the World Health ‎Organization, among others. The Article discusses these figures …

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Developing a Global Soil Regime

Boer, Ben; Hannam, Ian - 2015

and climate change. The effects of the increase in human population on the world, especially in terms of the decline in …

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