Australia’s biggest carbon credit scheme is barely removing any greenhouse gas from the atmosphere, according to a new study, despite hundreds of millions of dollars being pumped into it by businesses and the government.
One of the study’s authors, Dr Megan Evans from UNSW Canberra, said the findings about the Human Induced Regeneration scheme, known as HIR, pointed to “such huge failures that it’s almost beyond belief”.
Australia is yet to produce a carbon offset scheme that isn’t fraudulent greenwashing.
Has anyone?
We’re not going to reduce the harm of climate change with these unproven technologies, it will only come from the 7 R’s.
AustraliaAnyone is yet to produce a carbon offset scheme that isn’t fraudulent greenwashing.FTFY
It was apparent from the start that carbon offset was nothing more than a greenwashing scheme.