Project overview

This law honours project will examine and evaluate the role that the Ramsar Convention plays in the management of the CLLMM region in light of climate change impacts and threats.

The project will focus on an analysis of the text of the Ramsar Convention itself, the processes involved in the listing of
the CLLMM and the related ecological character descriptions, compliance and enforcement under the Ramsar Convention’s Montreux Record processes, compliance and enforcement processes under similar international environmental regimes, the role of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act in relation to Ramsar sites; and state and national legislation and policies and management plans for the CLLMM.

These outcomes will emphasise the strengths and weaknesses of the Ramsar Convention and options for reform in light of the need to mitigate climate change impacts across the region.