Australia needs to change land-use offset and address coal industry

Georgina Woods (August 2010)

Where: Bonn 2010: 13th AWG KP & 11th AWG LCA

Georgina Woods from the Climate Action Network in Australia talks about the domestic difficulties civil society faces there in the face of the influence of the coal industry, and the proposals for twelve new coal stations. She also discusses the loophole around land use that Australia negotiated in 1990, and hopes that land will no longer be used to offset emissions. She points out that if you discount this as an offset, then greenhouse gas emissions in Australia would have increased by 30%, not 8% since 1990