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Dr Shanta Barley, Chief Climate Scientist, Fortescue, at the Climate Integrity Summit.

Australians are being misled by ‘dodgy’ offsets, say Fortescue

The iron ore giant says the public is being misled into believing that low-quality carbon offset schemes will lead to net zero, despite evidence that only reducing fossil fuels will work.

  • Michael Bachelard

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Steve Blore was the pin-up boy for Climate Friendly. Until the rules changed.

‘Parasites’, ‘cowboys’: The carbon companies dividing rural Australia

Carbon developers descended on rural Australia 10 years ago promising big money and an easy fix to complex problems. Today, farmers are crying foul.

  • Charlotte Grieve and Michael Bachelard
Using mulga forests to save carbon is under fresh scrutiny.

Dust and dead trees: The reality of Australia’s biggest carbon saver

The nation has made a multibillion-dollar bet that carbon locked in desert scrub will offset emissions elsewhere, but doubters - from scientists in the city to the farmers on the land - are growing.

  • Michael Bachelard, Charlotte Grieve and The Visual Stories Team
The industry group representing property owners has expressed concern about the integrity of the carbon offset market.

One hundred ‘carbon-neutral’ corporates quit government scheme over integrity concerns

Mounting doubts that carbon offsets may not stand up to scrutiny have driven an exodus from the federal government-managed system.

  • Michael Bachelard
The Hellisheidi geothermal power plant in Iceland is the world’s largest commercial direct air-capture plant.

The new climate gold rush? Sucking carbon from the sky

As countries continue to pump planet-warming pollution into the skies the financial world is racing to fund the emerging field of carbon dioxide removal.

  • David Gelles and Christopher Flavelle
Clearcut forest in Clouds Creek in 2022, within the area proposed to be part of the Great Koala National Park.

The government promised a koala national park. Then the loggers moved in

Forests on the North Coast are earmarked for a national park to protect “the best patch of koala habitat in the world”, but the area is still being logged in epic proportions.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Professor Ian Chubb says the Clean Energy Regulator’s contact with CSIRO was ‘entirely inappropriate’.

‘Entirely inappropriate’: Top scientist slams watchdog interference in carbon review

Professor Ian Chubb led the review of Australia’s lucrative carbon credits market and he’s far from happy with the conduct of a government agency at the middle of it.

  • Charlotte Grieve and Michael Bachelard
Huge fossil fuel companies are spending millions on carbon-offset companies and projects, raising concerns among industry insiders and experts.

‘Perverse’: Woodside, Shell spend millions getting into offset game

Fossil fuel producers are buying large stakes in carbon companies and land to run their own carbon offset projects. Experts and insiders want that banned.

  • Charlotte Grieve and Simone Fox Koob
Clean Energy Regulator has chronic problems with managing conflicts. 

‘Extreme risk’: Carbon watchdog mismanaged conflicts, ‘intimidated’ scientists

Hundreds of pages of previously confidential material reveal the regulator responsible for managing billions of dollars in taxpayer funds, as well as millions of carbon offsets, has serious governance issues.

  • Charlotte Grieve and Simone Fox Koob
Described as a vacuum cleaner to suck carbon from the sky, the machine named Mammoth was launched in May.

Should Australia house a giant vacuum cleaner to suck carbon from the sky?

Removing carbon from the atmosphere to save us from climate change is a controversial notion, but faith is growing in some new technologies.

  • Nick O'Malley

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/carbon-pricing-1mpn