Putt briefed National Press Foundation fellows in October 2021: Are Wood Pellets Worse Than Coal?.

Peg Putt is the campaign coordinator of the Forests, Climate and Biomass Energy working group of the international Environmental Paper Network.

She was CEO of Markets For Change, an Australian non-government environment organization from 2012-18, working to influence markets for forest products in Japan, Australia and the UK. She also co-coordinated Climate Action Network International’s Sinks working Group in 2019. She was inscribed on the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women in 2011 for Service to the Environment. She was a Member of Parliament representing the Tasmanian Greens Party in the Tasmanian Parliament for 15 years from 1993-2008 and held the forests portfolio during this period. She was the Parliamentary Leader of the Greens for 10 years until she decided to leave Parliament.

Peg was a Gunns 20 defendant in the infamous but unsuccessful SLAPP suit brought by Gunns Ltd against leading Tasmanian environmentalists during their failed attempt to build a huge pulp mill there.

Since late 2008, Peg has worked internationally on forests and climate, consulting to The Wilderness Society, Global Witness (UK), Humane Society International (Australia), the Environmental Investigation Agency (Washington), as well as campaigning to stop illegal logging in Asia and Africa.

Peg has been involved with markets campaigns in Japan since 1994.

Prior to her Parliamentary career, Peg led the Tasmanian Conservation Trust, established the Threatened Species Network in Tasmania and was chair of the Huon Protection Group when they successfully halted a proposed woodchip mill in southern Tasmania. She commenced forest campaigning in the forests of northern New South Wales in the late 1970s.