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Australia’s chief scientific body urges discounting for big chunk of ERF-bound offsets

Published 10:07 on February 6, 2019  /  Last updated at 22:29 on February 6, 2019  / /  Asia Pacific, Australia

Offset crediting from projects set to deliver nearly 100 million carbon credits to the Australian government should be subject to discounts due to doubts about their environmental integrity, according to the nation’s top scientific body CSIRO and the New South Wales state government.
Offset crediting from projects set to deliver nearly 100 million carbon credits to the Australian government should be subject to discounts due to doubts about their environmental integrity, according to the nation’s top scientific body CSIRO and the New South Wales state government.


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