BellingenNSWMay 27

Australian environmental standards?

Australia’s old environment laws were a box‑ticking exercise. Sadly, the new ones could be too >>
https://theconversation.com/australias-old-environment-laws-were-a-box-ticking-exercise-sadly-the-new-ones-could-be-too-283069

"We're facing a deforestation crisis here in the Territory, with the bulldozers rolling in on the world's last intact tropical savanna, while the federal government looks away."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/claravale-land-clearing-judicial-review-environment-minister/106714566
#EPBCAct #biodiversity #conservation #BoxTicking #laws #WeakStandards #regulation #nature #offsets #extractivism #fastTack #deforestation #TropicalSavanna

Australia’s old environment laws were a box-ticking exercise. Sadly, the new ones could be too

These long-delayed laws took three years, a new Environment Minister and a slew of compromises to be passed.

The Conversation
co2mmitMay 13
I started exploring #offset to find a meaningful counterbalance for the #emissions I haven't cut. Once I explored #carbon #offsets, I was disappointed at the number of problems that have been identified and studies for decades now. Read more...
#climateaction #climate
https://www.co2mmit.org/p/cant-i-just-write-a-check
Can’t I Just Write a Check

Can’t I simply purchase carbon offsets to cancel out my greenhouse gas emissions? Many carbon offsets have serious issues that impact the answer.

CO2mmit by Jim Tolbert
Show threadEric Maugendre about carbonApr 24

Wood harvesting and forest management are depleting carbon storage. Old-growth forests in Sweden store ~72% more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference.

The top meter of soils in lowland primary forests contained roughly 64% of total C on average.

Didac Pascual et al. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adz8554

#carbon #carbonSinks #deforestation #timber #emissions #landUse #landUseChange #forests #forestry #offsets

Show threadEric Maugendre about emissionsApr 23
Accountancy is the distraction international climate institutions pursue. They err because reducing emissions would imply devaluing the fossil fuel assets of powerful actors. 🧵 #carbon #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #policySky
Show threadEric Maugendre about carbonApr 23

Accountancy is the distraction international climate institutions pursue. They err because reducing emissions would imply devaluing the fossil fuel assets of powerful actors. 🧵

#assets #assetStranding #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #windfallProfits #carbon

Show threadEric Maugendre about carbonApr 23

"The cause of climate change is the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels. But instead of focusing on the fundamental root cause, we’ve been focused on the interim product, emissions.
"But what I show in the book is that managing tons is an extremely narrow and technical understanding of the problem of climate change."

Jessica Green: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/the-big-flaw-in-climate-policy-were-trying-to-solve-the-wrong-problem/

#assets #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #windfallProfits

The big flaw in climate policy: We’re trying to solve the wrong problem

Jessica Green, author of ‘Existential Politics,’ argues that the international community’s focus on measuring emissions helped delay real action on climate change.

Yale Climate Connections
TheCoin CollaborativeApr 16

When there is so much going wrong in the world, it can be free to do something right. Here’s a review of one of my favorite #offsets, paid by #TheCoin's yield capture.

One of my earliest memories is of my Dad marking exams by lantern light (pictured). So when we found an offset subsidizing solar lighting in Kenya & Uganda, it was an easy one to support. (1/2)

TheCoin CollaborativeApr 16

Hello #Fediverse! 👋

I’m a software developer based in Lundar, Manitoba 🇨🇦, building #TheCoin, a climate-fintech project that flips the math on #ClimateAction.

Politics and corporate goodwill struggle to address the climate crisis, personal action is hard to scale. That's why I built TheCoin, a system to reward individuals and fund climate projects through verified #offsets.

Looking forward to meeting the #ClimateTech, #Fintech, and #BuildInPublic communities here! 🌍

#Introduction

Poujol 𝖱𝗈𝗌𝗍 ✅Feb 18

#CarbonCredits and Offsets - What Are They And How Do They Work? (by @climatenewsnow )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_xZG6UnvR0

> #Carbon_Credits and #offsets are a voluntary market that allows a company to emit #Co2 in exchange for doing something "green" like planting a tree or building ...

BellingenNSWNov 24, 2025

Exchange rates for different forms of environmental destruction:

From ‘net zero’ to ‘net gain’. The platypus-to-possum exchange rate
"Net gain’ allows/requires the use of offsets that are not like-for-like: I can destroy some platypus habitat if someone else protects some possum habitat."

"A bureaucrat is literally going to have to develop the platypus-to-possum exchange rate. I am not kidding; a bureaucrat is going to have to develop exchange rates for different forms of environmental destruction."
>>
https://michaelwest.com.au/from-net-zero-to-net-gain-the-platypus-to-possum-exchange-rate/
#Environment #biodiversity #BeanCounterEcology #offsets #EPBCAct #governance #destruction
The endangered Southern Pink Underwing Moth, Mural, Bellingen