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
- Make 2010 the year to protect and restore Australia’s forests as a climate solution - March 15, 2010
- Embracing forest protection as a climate solution - not just an offset mechanism - March 15, 2010
- Q & A on Labor and the Coalition’s flawed climate policies - February 14, 2010
2010 is a very important year for getting strong action by all levels of Government on climate change. So far, the targets of both Federal Labor and the Coalitions climate policies are inadequate. Public pressure needs to be applied so Australia can make a real, fair and significant contribution to global efforts to secure a safe climate.
Prime Minister Rudd and Climate Minister Penny Wong have recently announced more funds to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the degradation of forests and peatlands in the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Sumatra. Unfortunately, they continue to refuse to put the simple climate solution of protecting and restoring forests into action in our own backyard.
This is a Q & A about the Federal Labor and the Coalition’s climate policies. It includes questions on greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, policies that will protect nature to help secure a safe climate and how you can help us to secure a safe climate.
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. Future community carbon-accounting days are being organised, and details will be listed here as soon as they are available.
Climate Change Media Releases
- New agreement supports Indigenous and conservation goals for the Great Western Woodlands - March 09, 2010
- Opposition Can’t See The Wood For The 20 Million Trees - February 02, 2010
- Climate change plan gives green light for native forest power stations and ignores protection of forests - February 02, 2010
The Wilderness Society (TWS) and the Goldfields Land and Sea Council (GLSC) have signed an important agreement to work together for the protection of WA’s extraordinary Great Western Woodlands (GWW). The partners will develop a co-operative approach along with other land users to safeguard the ecology and cultural values of the region, and to ensure land justice and economic opportunities for the region’s Traditional Owners.
9.3 Billion Tonnes Of Carbon In Old Forests Ignored In Climate Policy - The Federal Opposition has missed a golden opportunity to focus on the huge stores of carbon in Australia’s remaining old-growth native forests as part of its plan to reduce greenhouse emissions, the Wilderness Society said today.
Following the release of the Tasmanian Government’s ‘wedges project”, environment groups today expressed dismay at the apparent lack of analysis and acceptance of the actual emissions from forestry activities and the immediate climate benefits that could be achieved by protecting native forests.
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