Category Archives: Tasmania’s carbon emissions

Launceston Public Meeting: Sept 16

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Chris Harries

Please download the poster HERE and share it with your network.

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Beefing up Tasmania’s climate legislation

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Climate Tasmania

This Summer’s weather and bushfire calamities along with the marine heatwave that is debilitating marine habitats and affecting our commercial fisheries have brought to the fore once again Tasmania’s acute vulnerability to climate change and the need for our state … Continue reading →

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Can Tasmania provide leadership on climate change?

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Climate Tasmania

Political turmoil in Canberra in recent weeks has once again thrown the spotlight on Australia’s response to the Paris COP Agreement – whereby individual nations have agreed to take leadership in order to help restrain global emissions.

The following is text of a letter sent to all forty Tasmanian MPs on 18 September 2018. Continue reading →

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Don’t try to fix traffic congestion

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Climate Tasmania

Speakers at Climate Tasmania’s well attended July 5 transport forum warned that trying to fix traffic congestion by catering for more cars is a costly and never ending, futile exercise. Dr Eliot Fishman (Institute for Sensible Transport) and Professor Jason … Continue reading →

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Where do Tasmanian emissions come from?

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Climate Tasmania

Sustainable Living Tasmania has done a wonderful job converting our state greenhouse emissions profile into a visual display. The wheel here represents greenhouse emissions coming from the four primary sectors shown. Emissions are based on 2014 official data. Click on … Continue reading →

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Where do Tasmania’s carbon emissions come from?

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Climate Tasmania

Tasmania has already reached its long term emissions reductions target (60% below 1990 levels by 2050) way ahead of schedule!

On the face of it this totally unexpected success seems to be illogical and unbelievable, particularly because it can be argued that almost nothing significant has been done on the mitigation policy front to achieve that goal. So how did it come about? What is the story behind this story?
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