The science is clear: burning forest material for energy produces lots of carbon emissions.
- Director, Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University
Australia cannot risk any further declines in its biodiversity resulting from harvesting native forests, or actions that bring further risks to its emissions-reduction goal.
Pada tahun terpanas dalam sejarah, negara-negara berkumpul untuk mencoba bertindak lebih cepat terhadap perubahan iklim. Ini tiga perkara utama yang dihadapi negosiator.
In what’s likely to be the hottest year on record, nations are gathering to try and hash out faster action on climate change. Here are the three main issues facing negotiators.
Even if the industry could make the shift, there’s not enough land or renewable energy potential on Earth to produce all the sustainable fuels airlines need.
Directing public funds to native forest logging is bad for the economy, the climate and biodiversity, and will increase bushfire risk.
We are no longer in typical conditions. Climate change is already damaging human and natural systems we hold dear in Australia.
From weak 2030 targets to controversial rules around carbon trading, let’s take a look at the summit’s defining issues.
Forget eyecatching headlines about planting millions of new trees – natural mature forests are far better at storing carbon.
As leaders and negotiators head to Katowice, Poland for this year’s round of UN climate talks, it is clear that there is still much work to be done to meet the goals set in Paris three years ago.
Every December Australia’s air travel peaks, as we travel to family and friends (or flee on holiday). Many buy carbon offsets for these flights – but what do they actually do to our carbon emissions?
The world has lost 10% of its wilderness areas in the past 20 years and, with it, vast stores of carbon.
The Renewable Energy Target now includes wood waste from forestry. But a more sustainable use of Australia’s native forests would be to leave them alone and earn carbon credits from the avoided emissions.
Australia’s emissions target will inevitably be compared with other leading nations. But a fair target should be calculated not on a basis of comparison, but on the world’s shared 2-degree climate goal.
The Tasmanian government this month released a draft of the revised management plan for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, which proposes rezoning certain areas from “wilderness zones” to “remote…
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