Brad Jessup – The Conversation

There are some barriers to linking our emissions reduction plan to California’s, but they’re worth overcoming. Thomas Hawk

January 23, 2013

Let’s link up: joining our carbon price to California’s

Brad Jessup, The University of Melbourne and Katherine Lake, The University of Melbourne

As the pace of international climate negotiations has slowed, the interest and attention of international organisations and climate policy watchers has been diverted to national climate change responses…

When a rubbish dump gets fast-tracked through planning, it’s time to ask questions. Brad Jessup

June 5, 2012

Rubbish to Molong: NSW Planning’s repressive approach to projects of significance

Brad Jessup, The University of Melbourne

Would you classify a landfill for a rural city in New South Wales as state or regionally significant? Should it get a smoother ride through the planning system than other kinds and scales of development…

Environmentalists are getting off the streets and into the courts in an effort to stop coal. Takver

November 14, 2011

Dragging coal through the courts: an alternative emissions‑reduction strategy

Brad Jessup, The University of Melbourne

The bill creating the carbon price has passed through Parliament. However, the campaigning efforts of the environmental lobby will not pause. More than ever, the coal industry is in its sights, with court…

Building a wind farm in India offsets emissions here: but did the locals want a wind farm? danishwindindustryassociation/Flickr

June 10, 2011

So much for a fair go: Kyoto protocol lets Australia offload climate responsibility

Brad Jessup, The University of Melbourne

If climate change ever was in equal part a moral, economic and environmental challenge, then it is no longer so. Morality has fallen from attention. The economists have long dominated the climate change…

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