One quick question: some years ago, the EPA was undertaking monitoring of emissions from cruise ships in the port of Hobart, noting that here, unlike Sydney Harbour, we allow ...
The Minister for Environment has the responsibility under Tasmanian law to ensure the government is meeting its obligations under the climate change act.
The Liberals have consistently failed to take the urgent action needed in this climate crisis.
Our reporting to the national carbon accounts under the land use, land use change and forestry sector includes the carbon emission withdrawals of forests in Tasmania.
The latest assessment from the IPCC of the total loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic tells us that it might be gone completely by 2030.
I did ask if you know how long it takes for the carbon that is lost in a clearfelled and and burnt coupe to be recovered because the science is clear.
We have 4000 to 5000 tyres that we generate each year, and we have a stockpile of 12 000 to 15 000 legacy tyres at Longford.
There was an allocation of $2 million, a grant to Norske Skog matched by a $2 million federal grant announced last May.
There's a 66 per cent likelihood that that will be within the next two to three years. That is a distressingly short amount of time.
Given our continuing increased emissions, in order to reach our net zero by 2030 target we need to decarbonise the transport sector.
