Climate Tasmania

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

Climate Advocacy Fund shows why accountancy is not boring

The attitudes and actions of companies in response to global warming are coming under some serious scrutiny, thanks to a new Australian enterprise called the Climate Advocacy Fund. [16 November 2010 | Peter Boyer]
In younger days I enjoyed dipping into a blue-covered book called, appropriately, Monty Python’s Big Red Book. One of my favourite pages explained [...]

The hypocrisy of outsourcing our emission problems

Stopping devastating tropical logging is a good thing, but it should never be at the expense of reducing emissions at home.

Science must determine our forestry future

Assessing the impact of forests and forest harvesting on carbon emissions needs to be based on scientific research and physical evidence. All involved in the forest debate need to put past prejudices behind them.