{"id":17720,"date":"2022-08-11T17:57:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T17:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=17720"},"modified":"2022-08-11T17:57:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T17:57:53","slug":"international-offset-accounting-tricks-wont-stop-climate-crisis-says-greens-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/08\/11\/international-offset-accounting-tricks-wont-stop-climate-crisis-says-greens-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"International offset accounting tricks won\u2019t stop climate crisis, says Greens Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On the Climate Change Authority Report into the international offsets market released today, attributable to Greens leader Adam Bandt MP:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe government must reject international offset accounting tricks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis Morrison-era report, commissioned by Angus Taylor to justify his government&#8217;s Paris accounting tricks, should be binned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to cut emissions here in Australia so that we get the benefits of transitioning to a zero economy. These international offsets just delay action and could also undercut our farmers, who could earn income from helping draw down pollution locally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe EU no longer allows international offsets and Australia should ban them too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf climate action is left to accounting tricks, pollution will go up and we won\u2019t stop the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSome of these supposed \u201ccarbon credits\u201d are nothing but hot air: they don\u2019t represent real cuts to emissions, they get traded hundreds of times, and they give corporations a free pass to keep pumping pollution into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe climate crisis and the threat of floods and fires is urgent. Any carbon reduction scheme must see emissions actually come down and carbon drawdown activities increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf we want to turn the tide on climate breakdown we need to see negative emissions, with more carbon drawdown through reforestation than pollution output. The time for ambition is now and we can\u2019t waste time on schemes that achieve net nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On Tamboran Resources\u2019 submission to the Climate Change Bill enquiry, attributable to Greens leader Adam Bandt MP:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The gas industry would rather the government sign off on widespread crop failures, water insecurity, extreme heat and flash flooding rather than take reasonable steps to avert the worsening of the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;No amount of spin from the gas grifters changes the fact that the Beetaloo Basin project will lift Australia&#8217;s pollution by up to 13%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFracking the Beetaloo Basin is impossible if the government wants to meet even its weak 43% target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There\u2019s no room for new coal and gas in our future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Climate Change Authority Report into the international offsets market released today, attributable to Greens leader Adam Bandt MP: \u201cThe government must reject international offset accounting tricks. \u201cThis Morrison-era report, commissioned by Angus Taylor to justify his government&#8217;s Paris accounting tricks, should be binned. \u201cWe need to cut emissions here in Australia so that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/08\/11\/international-offset-accounting-tricks-wont-stop-climate-crisis-says-greens-leader\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;International offset accounting tricks won\u2019t stop climate crisis, says Greens Leader&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17721,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720\/revisions\/17721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}