A Just Transition to Decarbonisation

This book provides researchers and policy-makers with legal avenues to enable a just transition to decarbonisation. The focus is on the United Nations themes of loss and damage, transport, nature and youth - across Australia and other economies - to significantly reduce CO2 emissions by 2030 and beyond. The four themes scaffold discussions about a just transition beyond the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai with the specific issues addressed in this book serving as a starting point for future discussions. Diane Kraal is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow with the Monash Business School, Monash University. She has published widely on taxation of natural resources and renewable energy. Sheis a member of the Energy Justice and the Social Contract project, Université de Pau et des Pays de l ’Adour, France. Gerry Nagtzaam is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, Monash University. His publications include international environmental treaties and their normative treatment, nuclear waste disposal in democratic states, the phenomenon of ecoterrorism, global plastic pollution regulation; and climate justice. Susie Siew Yuen Ho is an Associate Professor with the Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Education, Monash University. She is involved in a global project setting indicators for climate change education, a lead investigator in the Youth Environmental Alliance for Higher Education, and a Board Member of the Victorian Skills Authority. Katie O’Bryan is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Monash University. Her research interests include Indigenous legal rights, water law, rights of nature laws, human rights and public law. She has published on Indigenous water rights, native title and rights of nature. Jadranka Petrovic is a Lecturer with the Monash Business School, Monash University. Her publications include topics on protection of cultural heritage, statehood and self-determination; international trade in arms, protection of the environment, regulation of greenhouse gas emissions in aviation, international trade and human rights, and climate change impacts on nature.