The landfill industry’s decision to speak out about the integrity of carbon credits provides an opportunity to put the system back on the rails.
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Biodiversity market schemes can help – but they are not a silver bullet, and can be gamed if poorly designed.
Savanna grasslands are burnt early in the dry season to reduce the chance of large fires later. But it’s making air pollution worse.
Our new analysis suggests the vast majority of carbon credits granted for regrowing native forests either has not occurred, or would have occurred anyway.
Labor has promised a 43% cut in Australia’s emissions by 2030 and a high-integrity carbon credit market is vital to reaching this goal.
Australia needs an honest reckoning with the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long hold over Australian politics. Without that, we cannot shift to a principled stand against ceaseless expansion.
New Zealand has announced a more ambitious pledge to cut emissions, but the commitment relies on buying credits from offshore. There is no system for doing this yet, or for ensuring genuine cuts.
Prominent academics, including a former IPCC chair, round on governments worldwide for using the concept of net zero emissions to ‘greenwash’ their lack of commitment to solving global warming.
I spoke to dozens of people in the industry, to find out what they do – and don’t – believe.
Blue carbon stored in coastal ecosystems is important, but it’s a poor fig leaf for Australia’s abysmal record on emissions.
Under the current rules, the federal government takes the most responsibility for buying carbon credits. A blockchain-driven market would be faster, smarter, and much more open.
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Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University
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Professor, Australian National University
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Senior lecturer, Australian National University
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Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, School of Business, UNSW
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Programme Manager at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, University of Tasmania
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Senior lecturer, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics & Policy, Bangor University
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University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Professor, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Ecology, Charles Darwin University
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Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, The University of Melbourne