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 [...]

Carbon reduction measures won’t be enough to get us to our targets while we continue to overlook significant emission sources. [15 March 2011 | Peter Boyer]
If ever there was an issue custom-designed for political carnage, it’s human-induced climate change.
In the battle to secure effective policy to cut carbon emissions, John Howard, Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin [...]

Measuring carbon stored in forests remains one of the toughest carbon accounting tasks, but it’s not preventing some dedicated volunteers from giving it a go. [30 November 2010 | Peter Boyer]

Next Sunday some nature-lovers will take to a southern Tasmanian forest for “a day in the Styx”. There they will listen to people talking [...]