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LAWS6320: Climate Justice and Disaster Law
2025 unit information
Climate change impacts are already being felt around the world and governments are called upon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions engage in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and respond to the loss and damage caused by climate disasters. Climate disasters demand an integration of multilateral negotiations on emissions reduction and adaptation disaster risk reduction sustainable development. Human Rights and human security Via detailed examination of recent law and policy initiatives from developed and developing countries this unit offers students a unique approach to human and non-human. Climate Justice and its application to all stages of a disaster prevention response recovery and rebuilding and compensation and risk transfer. The role of insurance plays an important part in compensation and risk transfer. The unit of study comprehensively analyses the complexities of climate science economics and their interfaces with the climate law and policy making processes and also provides an in depth analysis of multilateral climate change negotiations dating from the establishment of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC to the 2015 Paris Agreement. Further information about this unit is available in the Sydney Law School timetable https://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/4533/pages/postgraduate-lecture-timetable, unit of study outline https://www.sydney.edu.au/units and academic staff profile https://www.sydney.edu.au/law/about/our-people/academic-staff.html
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Sydney Law School
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Law |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Critically assess the respective roles and responsibilities of government and insurers to avoid, prepare for, respond to, recover from, and compensate for, the risks of climate disasters;
- LO2. Apply understandings of environmental planning and assessment and pollution and waste regimes, as well as the protection of biodiversity, in relation to the questions of avoidance and recovery;
- LO3. Critically evaluate the viability of tort law and strict liability regimes for hazardous activities to compensate those who are impacted by climate disasters;
- LO4. Communicate understandings of strict liability regimes, including: global oil pollution spills, hazardous chemicals, asbestos and nuclear disasters;
- LO5. Develop and demonstrate research-based skills. Apply relevant legal research methodologies to synthesise primary and secondary sources and construct sound, logically structured legal argument(s) and communicate these to diverse audiences.
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Intensive September 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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