Climate Tasmania

The Tasmanian Climate Action Council has made a good start to a long-term climate action plan for the state. [27 July 2010 | Peter Boyer]
There was barely a murmur of dissent two years ago when Tasmania locked itself into a legally-binding regime requiring our carbon emissions in 2050 to be at least 60 per cent below [...]

The respective climate policies of the major parties for the 2010 Australian election bring no joy to those who want effective action to cut emissions. [20 July 2010 | Peter Boyer]
There can be few more depressing prospects than Election 2010. We might have thought the miserable, mindless, demeaning debates on “border protection” and the mining tax [...]

An economic plan that discounts environmental factors is worthless. This is the message coming from Australian Treasury chief Ken Henry, but it’s not getting through closer to home. [13 July 2010 | Peter Boyer]
“Development which does not respect conservation is not development at all. Conservation safeguards a substantive freedom — a freedom to have and to [...]