Dodgy offsets, dirty approvals

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Australia’s biggest polluters, including coal and gas companies, are being allowed to keep expanding and keep winning new approvals. The trick is so called carbon offsets. Under the Safeguard Mechanism, fossil fuel facilities can meet their obligations by buying carbon credits to use as offsets instead of cutting pollution. Many of those credits are dodgy. They are generated by paying for things like not logging native forests that were never going to be logged, and they don’t deliver the real, additional, and permanent emissions reductions that are claimed. The result is a climate policy that safeguards the fossil fuel industry, not the climate. Join us in Hobart for a conversation about how dodgy offsets are being used to wave through new coal and gas projects, why n…

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