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Andrew Macintosh, Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University

As Australia’s carbon offset industry grapples with integrity concerns, how can companies genuinely tackle climate change?

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Australia’s largest carbon market player, GreenCollar, has quit the federal government’s voluntary carbon neutral program, Climate Active. More than 100 companies have left the program in the past two years.

Climate Active provides certification to businesses and other organisations to verify that they are carbon neutral. Certification is supposed to mean an organisation has neutralised the impacts its greenhouse gas emissions have on global warming by buying carbon offsets, which represent emission reductions achieved elsewhere.

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