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Case study 4.3: Wildlife Whitsunday greenhouse effects case (p. 172)

Legal:           
For further analysis of the Wildlife Whitsunday case, see Jacqueline Peel, ‘The Role of Climate Change Litigation in Australia’s Response to Global Warming’ (2007) 24(2) Environmental and Planning Law Journal 90.

Policy:           
For information on a proposed ‘greenhouse gas trigger’ in the EPBC Act, see Lee Godden and Jacqueline Peel, ‘The EPBC Act 1999 (Cth): The Dark Sides of Virtue’ (2007) 31 Melbourne University Law Review 106 at 116-7.  See also Australian Labor Party, National Platform and Constitution 2007, Chapter 9, [24], and Australian Labor Party, Draft National Platform and Constitution 2009, Chapter 9, [67].

Science:           
For information on the impact of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef, see the website of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, with a section devoted to climate change as well as the Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2009, especially Ch 5.2, both available at  http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/. 

See also James Woodford, ‘Great Barrier Reef?’ (2004) 76 Australian Geographic 36 for a useful introduction to environmental challenges facing the Reef, and Chris McGrath, ‘Setting Climate Change Targets to Protect the Great Barrier Reef’ (2007) 24(3) Environmental and Planning Law Journal 182 for a more climate change-targeted analysis.


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