Ms Putt will be a guest of No Electricity from Forests. She is in Port Macquarie for the screening of Burned.

The environmentalist says that burning wood for electricity is contributing to an unfolding environmental catastrophe for both forests and climate around the world.  

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has given us a stern warning that we must reduce carbon emissions rapidly in the next 12 years to ensure we reach the Paris Accord limit of 1.5 degrees celsius, said NEFF spokesperson Frank Dennis.

"Otherwise we will reach a number of tipping points which could lead to an inability to control temperature by curbing emissions," Mr Dennis said.

"The need to reverse the trend of accelerating deforestation and forest degradation is urgent.

"The film Burned will accompany Peg`s presentation. It documents the destruction of forests in the southern parts of the USA and is relevant to Australia.

“Slow-growing peat land forests are intensively logged with heavy machinery. Clear-felled, wood-chipped, pelletised and shipped to the UK, they are burnt in big power stations owned by Drax Energy.

"The film shows how this counts towards the UK’s renewable energy target, despite there being no reduction at all in greenhouse gas emissions from burning wood compared to burning coal.” 

The NSW government, through the department of primary industry and the Forestry Corporation, claims wood is a renewable energy source and has been championing its possible use here on the North Coast. (DPI Report 2017), Mr Dennis said.

The fact is, the science shows burning wood is worse than burning coal in terms of emissions generated, he said.

“As the campaign coordinator of the Forests, Climate and Biomass Energy working group of the International Environment Paper Network, Peg is concerned that the new logging regulations applying now on the NSW North Coast will spell the death knell of our mature native forests and their dependent species as forest logging is stepped up to unprecedented levels more than doubling the cut of small logs,”  Mr Dennis said.

Peg Putt has been a forest campaigner for 40 years and was inscribed on the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women in 2011 for service to the environment. She was previously a member of Parliament representing the Tasmanian Greens Party in the Tasmanian Parliament for 15 years from 1993-2008.

She was the Parliamentary Leader of the Greens for 10 years until she decided to leave Parliament.

The film and presentation will be at the Glasshouse on Tuesday March 5 at 5.30pm.

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