Climate change

• Rights of nature

  4th May 2023

  What if nature was recognised as a legal entity with the same rights as humans to survive and thrive? What if Australia followed New Zealand's example and granted personhood status to the Murray Darling Basin or the Great Barrier Reef? Dion Bull of Stacks Law Firm discusses the movement gaining momentum using this strategy to protect the natural world from destructive forces such as climate change and overdevelopment.

• Uninsurable nation: Australia’s most climate-vulnerable places

  26th May 2022

  ‘While climate change affects all Australians, the risks are not shared equally,’ writes The Climate Council, who have just released a report, Uninsurable Nation: Australia’s Most Climate Vulnerable Places, along with a detailed Climate Risk Map of Australia. This article summarises their key findings. 

• Governments face a reckoning in the courts over climate change failure

  9th Jan 2020

  In the midst of the bushfire catastrophe in Australia and in the shadow of the failure of successive governments to act on warnings by scientists, Greg Barns SC argues that it will only be a matter of time before the courts are forced to step in as they have done with Big Tobacco and Big Pharma.