Australia’s carbon credits system a failure on global scale, study finds | Researchers find carbon offsets approach, which is supposed to regenerate scrubby outback forests, was not reducing emissions

silence7@slrpnk.net · 6 months ago

Australia’s carbon credits system a failure on global scale, study finds | Researchers find carbon offsets approach, which is supposed to regenerate scrubby outback forests, was not reducing emissions

spacesatan@lemm.ee · edit-2 6 months ago

I’m not convinced there are many goods like that. Lower carbon alternatives exist for most consumer products. But the data also does show that Australian co2 emissions dropped when they had a carbon tax and went back up when they got rid of it. I imagine the right wing Abbot government had more reasons for getting rid of it than just being ineffective.