Climate Tasmania

Old habits ensure that the forest divide remains as wide as ever, but it doesn’t have to be like this [3 April 2012 | Peter Boyer]
Dr Martin Moroni is becoming a prominent face of Forestry Tasmania.
Since his appointment as Forestry Tasmania’s forest carbon scientist in late 2009, he’s spoken to some 2000 people at gatherings [...]

Media briefing, University Club, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 10.30 am, 21 February 2012, for the launch of the Climate Commission Report, The Critical Decade: Tasmanian impacts and opportunities.
Participants: Professor Tim Flannery (chair), Professor Will Steffen and Professor Lesley Hughes, all of Climate Commission, and the Tasmanian Minister for Climate Change, Cassy O’Conner.
FLANNERY: Welcome everyone. Thank [...]

Address to the 15th International Environmental Forum, Hobart, 10 and 11 December 2011. Conference theme: Ethical Responses to Climate Change [11 December 2011 | Peter Boyer]
I’ll start at the beginning. Or about 56 million years ago, when the dinosaurs had only recently been extinguished and mammals were in the early stages of their evolution. There [...]