Senior New South Wales Liberals sought support from the Albanese government to generate carbon credits from ceasing logging in state forests only for their approach to be snubbed by their federal counterparts.
Documents obtained under freedom of information laws by the Nature Conservation Council of NSW reveal the then environment minister, James Griffin, and the then energy minister, Matt Kean, wrote to Tanya Plibersek and Chris Bowen seeking creation of new credits under the Emissions Reduction Fund.
