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Updated: August 11, 2010
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Save forests for safe climate
All over Australia, TWS supporters showed their support for a green solution to dangerous climate change with a series of 350.org actions. 25% of greenhouse gas emissions are caused by logging and degrading forests and bushland – so protecting forests makes climate sense, as well as safeguarding vital habitat for threatened wildlife.
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| Avoiding dangerous climate change |
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We must do all we can to limit climate change now. This means large and rapid reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases from all sources. |
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| Our forests are crucial carbon stores |
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How forests help to tackle climate change by Professor Brendan Mackey from the Australian National University and member of the WildCountry Science Council. |
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| It's time for Plan B |
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A series of compromises by the federal government on its pre-election commitment to take strong action on climate change has led to national and peak state-based environment organisations uniting in opposition to the proposed emissions trading legislation. Together, we're working on Plan B. |
Climate Change Updates
- Australia's Outback Found to be a Vast Climate 'Pollution Bank' - September 01, 2010
- Walk Against Warming 2010 Tasmania - August 19, 2010
- Thousands join the Walk Against Warming across Australia - August 15, 2010
Australia’s vast Outback has been found to play a vital role in absorbing and storing damaging climate pollution and, if better managed, the area could become a key factor in reducing the nation’s greenhouse emissions, according to a new national study.
Well over 1000 people participated in the Walk Against Warming in Hobart and Launceston and marched under the slogan "walk with the people, not the big polluters".
Over 15,000 people across Australia marched together in the Walk Against Warming yesterday in protest over the political inaction against climate change.
Climate Change Events
- Community carbon-accounting days
With your help, we can measure the amount of carbon stored in the forests that Forestry Tasmania is planning to log, and find out the true value of Tasmania's forests. For more details on upcoming Community Carbon Accounting Days please contact the campaign centre on 03 6224 1550 or email liz.johnstone@wilderness.org.au Future community carbon-accounting days are being organised, and details will be listed here as soon as they are available.
Climate Change Media Releases
- Hello… green policies? Gillard, Abbott Missing-In-Action on nature conservation - August 03, 2010
- Parliamentary nod to burning native forests for electricity - June 24, 2010
- Developed countries seeking loopholes to avoid emissions cuts at UN climate talks - June 08, 2010
The Wilderness Society has criticized both Labor and the Coalition for failing to present clear, positive policies to protect our native forests, our unique natural ecosystems and marine environments, and iconic places like the Kimberley and Cape York.
Laws designed to encourage renewable energy ventures are having the perverse effect of incentivising the logging of native forests, The Wilderness Society said.
BONN, Germany – Rich developed countries are attempting to cheat on accounting for their carbon emissions from logging and will only agree to ambitious overall greenhouse gas reduction targets if they get the forestry loopholes they demand, warned the Ecosystems Climate Alliance today.
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