Climate Tasmania

A Tasmanian take on the thorniest global issue since the dinosaurs. Based on Peter Boyer’s newspaper column in the Hobart Mercury.

Europe holds its ground on aviation emissions

It’s getting some stick from international airlines and governments, but the European court determination that airlines must pay for carbon emissions is a win for the planet. [10 January 2012 | Peter Boyer]

Politics is the art of the possible, so the politicians tell us. They’re the ones who define what’s possible, so in the absence [...]

A lesson from the Great Depression

Franklin Roosevelt’s advice to his people to get together and start doing things is being applied by local governments in preparing for future oil scarcity [12 July 2011 | Peter Boyer]
It’s hard to imagine a bleaker outlook than what Americans were facing on 4 March 1933, their new President’s Inauguration Day.
The temperature in Washington on that [...]

Structural change must be part of the Giddings medicine

With sustainability now a government buzzword, it’s time to get serious about the structural reforms needed to make it all happen. [28 June 2011 | Peter Boyer]
There was more than a little chutzpah in the Budget performance of Lara Giddings as she lined up cost-cutting targets in her plans to avoid the financial abyss ahead.
Closing [...]