Climate Tasmania

Australia’s impending carbon pricing scheme provides a framework for possible credits for Tasmanian forest managers, but they don’t seem to want to know about it. [23 August 2011 | Peter Boyer]

There’s a curious thing about the “Tasmanian forests intergovernmental agreement” signed by Julia Gillard and Lara Giddings on August 7.
The agreement, with the express aim [...]

The failure of Tony Abbott and Will Hodgman to get their heads around climate change is letting down their party and the electors they represent. [9 August 2011 | Peter Boyer]
Ask any politician why they’re in the game and they’ll reply that it’s to help people, to work for the public good, or words to that [...]

The carbon pricing regime will be the start of a long road toward a much-needed paradigm shift for Australia [26 July 2011 | Peter Boyer]

Should the Gillard government’s “Clean Energy Future” scheme become law in coming months, one of the things it will be remembered for is the process that brought it about: a rare [...]