Introduction

The Climate and Energy Working Group has had and will have a very full plate of activities. The Group played a very active role organising and participating in the first Colloquium of the new IUCN Academy of Environmental Law at its launching in Shanghai last November. The subject of the Colloquium was The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development. We were able to attract as speakers and panelists some of the world's leading sustainable energy experts. Six of our members made presentations. Professors Adrian Bradbrook and Rosemary Lyster of the University of Sydney Law School are ...