Garnaut's advocacy of preserving forests 'spot on'
Opposition Treasury spokesman Malcolm Turnbull is being illogical by proposing overseas forests be preserved as a hedge against climate change while supporting logging in Australia, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.
"Turnbull's right on bio-sequestration, but it becomes bio-obsequiousness when the National Association of Forest Industries knocks on his door," Senator Brown said.
"The recent Australian National University 'Green Carbon' report showed that an end to destruction of Australia's forests and woodlands could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a massive 24 per cent. This would have an immediate effect and outstrip an emissions trading scheme in reducing emissions rapidly and cheaply.
"Professor Garnaut's call that better management of agricultural and forestry assets could be 'genuinely transformative' (The Australian, today), in both Australia's greenhouse gas mitigation efforts and the global response to climate change, is spot on and requires serious consideration," Senator Brown said.
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