Forests, Carbon & Climate Change

International Union for Conservation of Nature Policy Statement on Primary Forests Including Intact Forest Landscapes

IUCN PF IFL Policy (2020) Approved Version (2)

Hazard Reduction Burns Are Not A Panacea For Bushfire Risk RFS Boss Says 

Hazard Reduction Burns Are Not A Panacea For Bushfire Risk RFS Boss Says
8 January 2020 – The Guardian (AAP)

The boss of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service says hazard reduction is important but not a panacea for bushfire risk and has “very little effect at all” on the spread of fire in severe or extreme …

Why Native Forest Logging and its Combustion for Energy Must End

Why Native Forest Logging And Its Combustion For Energy Must End

The Critical Decade: Climate science, risks and responses published by the Australian Climate Commission, 2011

This relatively early, but in reality possibly too late, report assesses developments in the science of climate change, associated risks and implications of the science for emission reductions.

Policy Options for the World’s Primary Forests in Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Here are identified four new actions that would provide a solid policy foundation for key international negotiations, including forest-related multilateral environmental agreements, to help ensure that primary forests persist into the 21st Century:
(1) recognize primary forests as a matter of global concern within international negotiations
(2) incorporate primary forests into environmental accounting;
(3) prioritize the principle …

Green Carbon: Natural Forests in Carbon Storage

Part 1. A Green Carbon account of Australia’s south eastern eucalypt forests, and policy implications by Australia’s pre-eminent forest climate scientists