Trees and climate change

Vegetation - our natural ally

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As bad as transport. Logging and landclearing emit as much greenhouse gas as our road, rail, sea and air traffic combined.

Often forgotten is our natural ally in fighting climate change - vegetation. Of the seven solutions to climate change, this is the one that The Wilderness Society is most strongly focussed on.

Protecting Australia's forests and bushlands is one of the most efficient and cost-effective ways of reducing our greenhouse emissions.This is because the annual emissions from logging and land clearing in Australia are so large that they more than equal Australia's entire domestic transport sector.

Further, vast landscapes covered in trees regulate the

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Trees turn CO2 into wood in vast quantities. Logging releases it. Photo: Ern Mainka

Earth's climate by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, effectively helping to control global temperatures.

 

 

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Climate and wildlife

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Forests protect our wildlife as well as our climate.

Not only do forests and bushlands protect our climate, they protect our wildlife as well.

Australia's rainforests, eucalypt forests and bushlands are some of the most biodiverse locations on the planet.

Climate change will threaten many of our precious animals and plants. We can help them, and protect our climate as well. That's why The Wilderness Society is working towards protecting and restoring Australia's forests and bushlands.

 

 

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  • 40% emission reductions in developed countries.
  • Poorer countries develop low carbon economies.
  • Protect indigenous peoples.
  • Make rich countries reduce domestic emissions and limit trade offs.
  • Account for GHG emissions from clearing and logging.
  • Link with the UN convention on biodiversity.
  • Encourage protecting and restoring natural carbon stores.
  • Discourage converting forests to biofuel or wood plantations.
  • To Reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation:
    (i) Protect carbon in primary forests and ecosystems
    (ii) Recover or restore natural forests and ecosystems
    (iii) Improve forest management under industrial logging.
    (iv) Afforestation and reforestation in degraded land
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