Carbon sinks

Premier Bartlett's ignorance of the global significance of forest carbon and the economic opportunities that it provides will cost Tasmania dearly in both financial and biodiversity terms, Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne, said today.

The Minister for Climate Change, Penny Wong, has ignored Australia's logging and burning of native forests as a critical contribution to global warming in her Sydney speech to loggers today, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.

The Australian National University's report on the role of natural forests as Australia's biggest carbon banks underscores the horror of logging in an age of climate change, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.