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 [...]

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 [...]

Tasmania’s new climate change minister Nick McKim is an optimist, which according to one definition is an uninformed pessimist. But he’s determined to make a difference. [1 June 2010 | Peter Boyer]
To use a topical metaphor, science and politics are like oil and water. One deals with the world as it is, the other with the [...]