Professor Jacqueline Peel presents at the Melbourne Climate Futures Research Cluster Meeting about the Amicus submission to the High Court of Australia hearings in its first ever climate case - MACH Energy v Denman.

This case raises questions about the types of climate impacts that need to be considered by authorities when assessing a fossil fuel project and the extent of responsibility proponents bear for impacts associated with their downstream or scope 3 emissions (often the lion's share of a project's emissions where the fossil fuel extracted is intended for export and consumption overseas).

This is a topic with which many courts have engaged in the last few years, including courts in the UK, US, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Germany and Switzerland, as well as the International Court of Justice in its landmark climate Advisory Opinion.