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Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law (ACCEL)
The objectives of the Centre are to encourage, promote and support innovative and important scholarship including teaching, research, consultancy and public interest advocacy in all areas of environmental law and policy. These objectives are pursued within the University of Sydney, with other related Centres and institutions in Australia and overseas, with the legal profession, and with the wider community.
Forthcoming Events
ACCEL CONFERENCE 2010: Resilience and Climate Change Law's Response? Register | Brochure
Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series: Confronting the Greenhouse Conundrum in a Climate of Uncertainty
Latest News
- ACCEL 2010 Newsletter
- Emeritus Professor Ben Boer awarded Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship. read more
- Rescuing climate science from politics by Professor Rosemary Lyster - Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will reprosecute the case for a carbon price following the elections. But first, she intends to build a community consensus for action. How hard is this likely to be? read more
- In June, Nicola Franklin and Emeritus Professor Ben Boer conducted the unit of study Sustainable Development Law in China. read more
- Dr Tim Stephens discusses Australia's application to the International Court of Justice, which accuses Japan of breaching numerous treaties with its continued whaling program, in an extended interview with ABC Radio National's Saturday Extra.
- In The Wilds of Climate Law edited by Rosemary Lyster has now been published
- Bates, G., Environmental Law in Australia 7th. edition has now been published and is available directly from the publishers, LexisNexis, or from University bookshops
- Valuable climate between Indonesia and the University of Sydney
- Copenhagen leaves room to move on Climate Change
Newsletter
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