A Federal Court judge says a case brought by a super fund member who claims his fund didn't properly disclose climate change risks raises important public issues.
Represented by a former senior judge, a super fund member is alleging his fund is in breach of the Corporations Act due to poor climate disclosure practices.
Climate change litigants are increasingly arguing their case by alleging infringement of environmental and human rights, according to the Chief Justice of the NSW Land and Environment Court.
The COAG Energy Council today appointed a leading renewables and climate change lawyer as an additional commissioner to the Australian Energy Market Commission.
Hearings start this week on a greenhouse gas challenge to a Peabody coal mine extension, based on alleged non-compliance with a decade-old state environmental policy.
There might be sound reasons for disagreeing with the EPBC approval granted to Adani for its proposed coal mine, but it wasn't unlawful, three Federal Court judges said today.
The High Court has refused to consider whether Queensland's Appeal Court wrongly dealt with coal-burning emissions when hearing a dispute over GVK Hancock's Alpha coal mine.
Directors are breaching their fiduciary duty if they only comply with climate change legislation and fail to adequately develop strategies to equip their companies for a carbon-constrained economy, according to MinterEllison lawyer and corporate governance expert Sarah Barker.