Climate Tasmania

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

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Climate Reality

The Climate Reality Project (originally named The Climate Project), founded by Al Gore, came to Australia in 2006. There are five Al Gore-trained Climate Reality volunteer presenters in Tasmania. To book a presentation for your school, community or workplace group, email Sustainable Living Tasmania or telephone (03) 62345566. The Climate Reality Project is administered in Australia by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

Carbon — that other divide in our forests

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 hard slog of measuring forest carbon

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 [...]

Funny business over forests

Tasmania stands to benefit from preserving its carbon-rich old forests, but Forestry Tasmania doesn’t seem to want to know. [26 January 2010 | Peter Boyer]
In July last year I heard about a Wilderness Society project to assess the amount of carbon held in native forest areas scheduled to be logged. Thinking I might write about this, [...]