The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development

Adrian J Bradbrook is the Bonython Professor of Energy Law at the University of Adelaide, Australia and the former Chair of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law Energy Law and Climate Change Working Group. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy and the International Energy Foundation. He is the author of the book Solar Energy and the Law (1984), and has published numerous legal academic articles relating primarily to environmental aspects of energy law, with particular emphasis on energy efficiency and renewable energy resources. Rosemary Lyster is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. She specialises in Environmental law and Administrative law. In the areas of Environmental law her primary areas of interest are energy law, water law, Asia-Pacific environmental law and Environmental Dispute Resolution, which she teaches in the Master of Environmental Law course. Rosemary is Director of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law (Sydney) and Editor in Chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law. She is a member of the IUCN/World Conservation Union's Commission on Environmental Law. Richard L. Ottinger is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law at Pace Law School in White Plains, New York, where he taught environmental law and was Dean from 1994-1999. He is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and Chair of its Climate and Energy Working Group. He served for 16 years in the U.S. Congress, chairing the House Subcommittee on Energy, Conservation and Power. He was a founding staff member of the U.S. Peace Corps and was an Associate in the New York law firm of Clearly, Gottlieb, Friendly & Hamilton. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Cornell University. Dr Wang Xi received his B.A degree from Wuhan Normal College in 1981. He graduated from Wuhan University in 1984 (M.L.) and from Washington University in 1987 (M.J.S). He concluded his Ph.D. at Wuhan University in the year 2000. He is currently Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Director of Environmental and Resources Law Institute of the same University. He is a member of Academic Committee of Environmental Law under the Ministry of Education of China.

Acknowledgments; Message from Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations; Introduction: a global learned society to address Earth's evolution: the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Nicholas A. Robinson; Public lectures on international environmental law Alexandre Kiss; Part I. Sustainable Development and the Role of Energy Law: 1. Development and energy Jose Goldemberg; 2. The imperatives of energy for sustainable development Thomas B. Johansson; 3. 2020 energy demand of China and energy conservation Zhou Dadi; 4. Sustainable development and the Marrakech accords David Hodas; 5. Ethical implications Klaus Bosselmann; 6. Technological implications William Chandler; Part II. Legal Issues in Contemporary Energy Law: 7. Legal frameworks for energy for sustainable development Richard Ottinger; 8. Air pollution control laws: common but differentiated responsibilities for managing the atmosphere Nicholas A. Robinson; 9. Green pricing and green power marketing: demand-side mechanisms for promoting 'green power' in deregulated energy markets Alexandra S. Wawryk; 10. Agricultural renewable energy and its management in China Zhu Jian-guo; Part III. International Energy Law: 11. International law and global sustainable energy production and consumption Adrian J. Bradbrook and Ralph D. Wahnshafft; 12. Policy options Kui-Nang (Peter) Mak and Friedrich Soltau; 13. Financing energy for sustainable development Jayarao Gururaja; 14. The Clean Development Mechanism and the UNFCCC/Kyoto Protocol developments Maria Socorro Z. Manguiat; 15. The report of the World Commission on Dams: some implications for energy law Achim Steiner and Lawrence J. M. Haas; 16. International issues for sustainable development: IUCN perspective John Scanlon; 17. Enhanced implementation and enforcement of international environmental laws by the judiciary Alfred Rest; Part IV. Comparative Energy Law: 18. UNDP: China's energy portfolio Rusong Li; 19. Implementing the Kyoto Protocol beyond the WSSD at Johannesburg - the Japanese perspective Akio Morishima; 20. Strategy, policy, and law promoting renewable energy resources in China Wang Xi, Mao Runlin and Maggie Dong; 21. Energy development and utilization in Africa Ibibia Worika; 22. European energy law initiatives Bernhard Nagel; 23. The law of energy for sustainable development in Britain Andrew Warren; Part V. Electricity Restructuring: 24. Some environmental lessons from electricity restructuring Peter A. Bradford; 25. The implications of electricity restructuring for a sustainable energy framework: what's law got to do with it? Rosemary Lyster; 26. Electricity market liberalization and energy sustainability Barry Barton; Part VI. Financing for Sustainable Energy: 27. Financing clean energy for development Alan S. Miller; 28. Legal aspects of international project finance for sustainable energy development Donggen Xu; 29. Emissions trading systems Cao Ming-de; Part VII. Civil Society and the Procedural Requirements of Energy Law for Sustainable Development: 30. The role of civil society Svitlana Kravchenko; 31. Foundations in university education Michael I. Jeffery; 32. The role of the judiciary Paul Stein; 33. Access to justice and citizen enforcement John Bonine; 34. The business case and approach to sustainable energy Nick Wood; Index.