Kyoto may protect Tasmanian forests: Environment Tasmania
www.yahoo.com 2007-12-4
Lobby group, Environment Tasmania hopes the state's native forests will benefit from Australia signing the Kyoto protocol.
The newly elected Labor Government has begun the process of ratifying the protocol on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
Environment Tasmania's chairman, Phill Pullinger says Australia will find it difficult to fulfil its Kyoto obligations without doing more to protect the state's native forests.
He says emissions from logging in Tasmania's native forests are equivalent to what would be produced by 4.5 million cars, and Australia will now have a formal obligation to cut emissions.
"One of the quickest and cheapest and most effective of ways for Australia to immediately start cutting our greenhouse gas emissions is gonna be in protecting native forests and ending land clearing," he said.
"It's one of the measures that immediately will reduce our emissions, where some of the other measures are going to take long amounts of time to kick in."
(editor : jane)
