Category Archives: Climate Project

Al Gore’s international movement

Forests and climate change: Issues in a Tasmanian context

Climate change and the need to cut emissions presents us with a real problem in the context of forestry. Evidence about carbon storage by forests suggests a way out of the current forest harvesting impasse. Continue reading

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How do we get climate science into living rooms?

Getting ordinary people to accept scientific advice on something as complex and hard to see as climate change will not be an easy task. Most of all, it will require politicians to be aware of the science and committed to acting on it. Continue reading

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First, the good news

Community action to reduce emissions and live more sustainably is filling the leadership vacuum on climate change. Continue reading

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