Forestry fudging | The Spectator Australia
Under pressure to adopt an essentially meaningless policy, a promise to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, Scott Morrison’s federal government may adopt a meaningless solution in the next budget – land use and forestry schemes for absorbing carbon. In a variation on a dodge used by Australia to meet previous climate targets, the Morrison government could allocate a few billion dollars in the next federal budget to schemes of varying worth to turn soils and forests into carbon sinks. The government can then claim Australia is soaking up as much carbon as it is emitting and that is a form ...
Source: spectator.com.au
