Provides a comprehensive guide to climate change law in Australia and internationally, focusing on Australia's implementation of climate-related treaties.

Introduction: arguments, themes and overview; 1. Climate law: meaning and context; 2. Legal elements and continued development of the international climate change regime; 3. Measurement and verification of state emissions and legacy of the Kyoto Protocol's compliance system; 4. Development of climate law in Australia; 5. Putting a price on carbon: regulatory models and emission trading schemes; 6. The regulatory network of the clean development mechanism; 7. The emerging scheme for the protection of forests in developing countries (REDD); 8. Climate finance, technology transfer, and capacity-building for sustainable development; 9. Technology options: legal and regulatory frameworks for transition to a low-carbon economy; 10. Regulation of biosequestration and emission reductions in the land sector in Australia; 11. Adaptation to climate change through legal frameworks.

Alexander Zahar grew up in Athens, Greece. He completed his undergraduate studies, in Philosophy, in New Zealand, and his PhD, in Philosophy of Science, at University College London while on a British Council Commonwealth Scholarship. In Sydney, he worked at the Legal Aid Commission and the Department of Juvenile Justice, during which time he completed his LLB. He joined the United Nations as a lawyer, first at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and from 2003 to 2007 at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. From 2008 to 2010 he was Lecturer in Law at Griffith Law School. He joined Macquarie Law School as a Senior Lecturer in 2011.