Virginia Young

Virginia Young works with scientific leaders worldwide to communicate the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem integrity for the mitigation of climate change. She is chairperson of the west Australian environment NGO Gondwanalink. She is a board member of Wilderness Australia and the US-based Partnership for Policy Integrity and a member of several climate specialist groups of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Recent articles by Virginia Young

Australia’s greenhouse targets cannot be met without the conservation of native forest

Australia’s greenhouse targets cannot be met without the conservation of native forest

When Labour Governments moved to protect native forest in the past – Hawke, Wran, Gallop, Kirner, Beattie, Carr – they knew that they were protecting irreplaceable natural values and resources. Even as late as the early 2000s however, the role of forests in climate change mitigation was little known. It was certainly not a matter of any significance in public debate.