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Australia’s Review of Climate Change Policy
It is critical that the logging industry does not get into further logging and clearing of native forest ecosystems under the guise of the need to thin them as a bushfire mitigation strategy. The science has clearly established that logged forests burn hotter, more frequently and more catastrophically than unlogged forests and the development of any policy in relation to …
Review of Draft Australian FSC Standard
AFCA and its members believe that due to decades of over logging and climate change it is now no longer possible to achieve sustainable industrial native forest logging in Australia nor in Primary forests around the world. AFCA believe that if the concerns we raise in this submission are met and the risk assessment process is followed correctly then the …
Inquiry into climate change and biodiversity
It is critical that the logging industry does not get into further logging and clearing of native forest ecosystems under the guise of the need to thin them as a bushfire mitigation strategy. The science has clearly established that logged forests burn hotter, more frequently and more catastrophically than unlogged forests and the development of any policy in relation to …
Independent Review into the Future Security of the National Electricity Market
The Australian Forests and Climate Alliance has correctly argued since 2009 that native forest biomass is neither a carbon neutral nor a low emission means by which energy can be generated, either alone or in co-generation facilities.
We observe that the preliminary report of the review you are undertaking includes biomass combustion in its list of ‘low emission’ technologies: ‘There …