John EnglartClimate Action Tracker #Australia 🇦🇺 assessment 11 June 2025.
We are rated ‘insufficient’, still expanding #fossilfuels, reliant on LULUCF accounting for emission reduction, two thirds of #SafeguardMechanism reduction is based on offsets .
Powerful piece on Labor’s Safeguard Mechanism not being fit for purpose in reducing Australia’s industrial climate pollution. By Ketan Joshi
#Ausvotes #Safeguardmechanism
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/29/emissions-policy-climate-change-toothless-confusing/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
#Ausvotes #Safeguardmechanism
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/29/emissions-policy-climate-change-toothless-confusing/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
Financial analyst Alan Kohler on carbon offsets.
The whole safeguard mechanism for regulating the largest carbon polluters here in Australia is built on using carbon offsets. What a house of cards Labor has established. They use this as justification for not needing a climate trigger in environment laws.
Do carbon credits work to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere? | Alan Kohler | ABC News
An Interesting NYT article on the possibilities of soil carbon storage in Australia using fungal spores. This will also help in building up the carbon nutrients in agricultural soils. But Australia's #SafeguardMechanism allows Fossil gas companies to offset Scope 1 & 2 emissions through buying carbon credits, which is highly problematic.
#SoilCarbon #CarbonCredits #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #Australia
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/climate/climate-change-fungus-carbon-australia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU4.2V-a._h658pZfus_q&smid=url-share
Research: Australian human-induced native forest regeneration carbon offset projects have limited impact on changes in woody vegetation cover and carbon removals.
Poor integrity carbon offsets actually enables fossil fuel projects to increase emissions under current #SafeguardMechanism policy settings which allows unlimited offset credits to meet set targets.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01313-x
#CarbonOffsets #CarbonAccounting #Australia #ForestRegeneration #FossilFuels
Australian human-induced native forest regeneration carbon offset projects have limited impact on changes in woody vegetation cover and carbon removals - Communications Earth & Environment
Forest regeneration carbon offset projects in Australia show only small increases in woody vegetation cover relative to credited regeneration, and changes are comparable to those in the surrounding area, according to an analysis of 182 project.
Best weekend read? 🔖
Climate Betrayal: how backroom deals with Japan locked Australia in for decades of gas
Reveals foreign relations diplomacy and pressure between #Japan🇯🇵 and #Australia🇦🇺 , Fossil Fuel company lobbying on #FossilGas and #LNG (especially #Santos & #Inpex with Icthys and Barossa Gas projects) , IEA on no new fossil fuel projects, Australia's #SafeguardMechanism and the new #SeaDunping legislation to enable #CCUS across international borders.
By former SA Senator and transparency warrior Rex Patrick and Philip Dorling.
#MichaelWestMedia #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis
https://michaelwest.com.au/labor-government-ramps-up-gas-exports-japan/
@CelloMomOnCars
Shhhhh... Australia🇦🇺 is already selling Australian Carbon Credit Units to #Fossilfuel companies to #Offset emissions from new #FossilGas projects as part of the #SafeguardMechanism.
Here is the methodology: Tidal Restoration of Blue Carbon Ecosystems method
#mangroves #Saltmarshes
https://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/ERF/Choosing-a-project-type/Opportunities-for-the-land-sector/Vegetation-methods/tidal-restoration-of-blue-carbon-ecosystems-method
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴The #Australian #Labour government recycles light version of previous government's futile #ClimatePolicy, rebrands it "#SafeguardMechanism.
@thejuicemedia sums it up in this great spot:
Check if your national government does the same "shitfuckery" and vote 🗳 accordingly.
Honest Government Ad | the Safeguard Mechanism
Climate impacts of fossil fuel projects under the Albanese government. report (ACF)
"The total carbon pollution that would result from new fossil fuel projects that have received approvals or other material support under the Albanese government is nearly 35 times larger than the total cumulative emissions reduction that will be delivered by the Albanese government’s signature climate policy, the Safeguard Mechanism, to 2030."
#Australia #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #SafeguardMechanism
https://www.acf.org.au/climate-impacts-of-fossil-fuel-projects-under-the-albanese-govt
Climate impacts of fossil fuel projects under the Albanese government
Carbon emissions from fossil fuel projects receiving approvals and support under the Albanese government, compared with emission reductions expected from Australia’s domestic climate policies. Analysis by Piers Verstegen, Climate Safe Solutions, November 2023
Australia's #SafeguardMechanism allows #fossilfuel projects to proceed as long as Type 1 & 2 emissions are offset. But what if those #carbonoffsets are based on a flawed and still being researched methodology... like #soilcarbon?
https://reneweconomy.com.au/australian-scientists-raise-serious-concerns-over-soil-carbon-offsets-for-fossil-fuels/
https://reneweconomy.com.au/australian-scientists-raise-serious-concerns-over-soil-carbon-offsets-for-fossil-fuels/
