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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Adam Morton Climate and environment editor

Australia’s carbon credits system a failure on global scale, study finds

a scrubby hilly area in outback Queensland
A co-author of the study researchers found there was ‘nowhere near the forest cover that you should see’ given the number of carbon credits issued. Photograph: Hilke Maunder/Alamy

Australia’s main carbon offsets method is a failure on a global scale and doing little if anything to help address the climate crisis, according to a major new study.

Research by 11 academics found the most popular technique used to create offsets in Australia, known as “human-induced regeneration” and pledged to regenerate scrubby outback forests, had mostly not improved tree cover as promised between about 2015 and 2022.

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