While an Australian court has ruled that potential impacts of climate change need to be considered in a specific rezoning and development matter, the big legal issues are still before home owners living in vulnerable areas on the NSW coast.
Federal, state and local government, along with developers and industry, may find that a body of legal precedent is being created while they continue to sit on their hands or totally ignore the issues.
In recent times Alaska has seen a number of communities become proactive as the historical climate changes for the worst in that region.
"SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers for the Alaska Native coastal village of Kivalina, which is being forced to relocate because of flooding caused by the changing Arctic climate, filed suit in federal court here Tuesday arguing that 5 oil companies, 14 electric utilities and the country’s largest coal company were responsible for the village’s woes.----
The suit is the latest effort to hold companies like BP America, Chevron, Peabody Energy, Duke Energy and the Southern Company responsible for the impact of global warming because they emit millions of tons of greenhouse gases, or, in the case of Peabody, mine and market carbon-laden coal that is burned by others. It accused the companies of creating a public nuisance."
Saturday 1 March 2008
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