Forest and Climate Change Forums

In August, September and October The Wilderness Society will present 'Forest and Climate Change Action Forums' along the east coast of Australia.

Groundbreaking new science from researchers at the Australian National University has highlighted the imperative to protect the carbon stored in natural forests if we are to help mitigate climate change.

The forests and climate change forums are a way of sharing this exciting new science with you.

Forests and climate change forum - Find out more about green carbon and what you can do to protect Australia's carbon banks.

• To find details of a Forum in your area, click here.
  

Forest and Climate Change Action Forums

A groundbreaking new report from the Australian National University, called Green Carbon, has been released; it shows the important role protecting forests can play in storing carbon and reducing the impacts of climate change.

Australia’s forests have been giant carbon pumps for hundreds of years, drawing carbon from the air and storing it in the branches, trunks, roots and soil of the living forest.

The Green Carbon science reveals that Australia has some of the most carbon-rich forests in the world—storing more carbon per hectare than tropical forests in Indonesia or Brazil.

Australia’s forests store up to ten times more carbon than was previously thought. This means huge amounts of carbon will be preserved when Australia's forests are protected from logging.
 
The Wilderness Society has launched a community campaign to ensure the Rudd Government protects our carbon banks as part of the Australian Government’s climate change solution.

Come to a Forest and Climate Change Forum near you

The forests and climate change forums are a way of sharing this exciting new science with you.

We will be holding forums in Melbourne, Sydney, Blue Mountains, Gosford, Bellingen, Coffs Harbour, Byron Bay, Mullumbimby, Lismore, Brisbane and Canberra in the coming month.

• To find details of a Forum in your area, click here.
  

They are also an opportunity to find out how you can take steps to help ensure our carbon banks are protected by signing postcards, writing letters and submissions or joining the Green Carbon Network – a group of organisations and individuals committed to making certain the Green Carbon report accounting is incorporated into Australian and international climate change agreements.

Participate in a Green Carbon Quiz while you are at the Forum! Take the opportunity to win prizes and to apply what you have just learnt about our forests and how they can help reduce climate change.

We look forward to sharing this new science with you, and to you becoming part of protecting our forests as a solution to climate change.

For more information about The Wilderness Society’s Forest and Climate Change Forums
contact Gemma Tillack on mobile 0427 057 643, or
email: gemma.tillack@wilderness.org.au

More information:

• Learn more about the important role forests play in storing carbon and reducing the impacts of climate change.