Rosemary Lyster - Environmental Law
Rosemary Lyster is an associate professor in the Law School, director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law and a member of the World Conservation Union’s Commission on Environmental Law.
Regulation of climate change
Professor Lyster’s research in the area of energy and climate law focuses on ways in which the law can be used to regulate escalating greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector. She has assessed a number of regulatory measures including:
- energy and carbon taxes, and clean energy tax incentives
- participation in international or national emissions-trading schemes
- effective Renewable Portfolio Standards
- systems-benefit charges/public benefit funds
- demand-side management programs
- the mandatory labeling of consumer bills
- ‘feed-in laws’ to support renewable energy technologies.
Lyster’s specialist areas, in which she has published extensively, are energy and climate law, water law, GMOs and environmental law. Her works include books, chapters and articles in leading international and domestic law journals. She is a regular presenter at international and domestic conferences.
She is the director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law (ACCEL) which comprises eight full-time environmental lawyers and two adjunct professors. ACCEL’s objectives are to encourage, promote and support innovative and important scholarship, including teaching, research, consultancy and public interest advocacy in all areas of climate and environmental law and policy.
These objectives are pursued within the University of Sydney, with other centres and institutions in Australia and overseas, the legal profession, and the wider community. ACCEL is home to the Faculty of Law’s Climate Law and Policy Group which encompasses the intersections between climate change and many disparate areas of law.