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Carbon Sequestration
Three Year Forest Destruction Plan a Climate DisasterSustainable Timbers Tasmania’s ‘Three Year Wood Production Plan’ is a climate disaster. Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 7 Jul 2020 |
Gutwein Must Step Up on World Environment DayThe best gift the Gutwein Government could give Tasmania on World Environment Day is a policy reset. Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 5 Jun 2020 |
Greens Release Safe Climate BillThe Greens are responding to community demand for action on climate and will be tabling the Safe Climate Bill 2020 in State Parliament next week. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 12 Mar 2020 |
Safe Climate Bill 2020A Bill for an Act to acknowledge the climate emergency as a threat to life on Earth and establish a framework for... Rosalie Woodruff MP | Greens Bill | 12 Mar 2020 |
Labor and the Liberals United in Carbon Bank DestructionThe Liberals, Labor and Clark MP, Madeleine Ogilvie, voted to allow logging the 365,000 hectares of forests set aside under the TFA. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 27 Nov 2019 |
Groom's Climate Action 21 "Plan" A Tragic FarceThree years after taking office and abolishing the climate portfolio as well as the independent Climate Action Council, the Hodgman Government has released a woefully weak climate inaction plan. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 1 Jun 2017 |
Where is Groom's Climate Change [in]Action Plan?After three years in government, following devastating climate-related bushfires and floods, the State Liberals are yet to produce a climate plan to prepare Tasmania and its people for a warmer future in a carbon constrained world. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 13 Jan 2017 |
Liberal Government's Blind Pursuit of Native Forest BiomassThe use of forest biomass for energy is designed by industry proponents to entrench, legitimise and increase native forest logging. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 24 Aug 2016 |
Greens Alternative Budget 2016: Funding to Provide for Skills and Employment in Forest RestorationIn 2012, the Labor Green Government delivered the Tasmanian Forest Carbon Study which assessed the amount and potential economic value of carbon sequestered across the entire Tasmanian forest estate. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 1 Jun 2016 |