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Carbon offsetting

September 2026

  • Adam Morton

    Clear air
    Australia’s big polluters rely on carbon offsets for climate credibility. But the system looks like a house of cards

    Adam Morton
  • A member of the Tacana Indigenous nation places their open palm against a tree trunk where chevrons has been incised

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Carbon fever’ threatens hard-won Indigenous rights in Bolivian Amazon

  • Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, August 4, 2026. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

    Australian Politics
    Sarah Hanson-Young on big tech’s ‘attack on democracy’ – Australian Politics podcast

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  • Greens leader larissa Waters

    Contentious koala park plan to go ahead as three Greens senators cross the floor

August 2026

  • A man in oilskin dungarees and thick gloves on a boat holding a dark lobster by its claws

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Lobsters and acidic seas: can shellfish help neutralise one of the greatest threats to the ocean?

    Crustaceans are the subject of tests to see if alkalis added to seawater, so it absorbs more CO2, harm marine life. But Trump’s halt to funding threatens to scupper the research

May 2026

  • Adam Morton

    The BHP files
    Australian taxpayers subsidise Big Mining’s use of fossil fuel to the tune of $4bn a year. It’s a strange way to tackle emissions

    Adam Morton
    Given the scale of its contribution to global heating, the world’s biggest miner has a duty to invest heavily in solutions that could have a global impact

April 2026

  • Pictured: A coal stacker pours coal into piles ready for export in Newcastle, NSW. About 80% of Australia’s coalmines pumped more emissions into the atmosphere during the last financial year than their government-imposed limit, new data shows

    Australia’s coalmine emissions are increasing. Is this how a major policy to cut climate pollution is meant to work?

    The Albanese government overhauled policy and promised significant pollution cuts – but carbon offsets are still being used as an excuse

January 2026

  • Person installing solar panel on roof

    New Australian carbon credit scheme for solar and EVs accused of potentially misleading customers

    Climate campaigners have complained to the ACCC about Aetium, saying the company failed a key global standard designed to incentivise carbon reduction

November 2025

  • A Greek firefighter battles a wildfire

    Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels

    Joëlle Gergis
  • A man in navy blue overalls stand among grassland and fallen trees. He is making notes.

    The age of extinction
    ‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect?

October 2025

  • The Plitvice Lakes national park in Croatia.

    Tour operator Intrepid drops carbon offsets and emissions targets

  • A firefighter stands among burning trees.

    Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

August 2025

  • Composite illustration of Seoul

    The big emitters
    ‘A structural dependence on heavy industry’: can South Korea wean itself off fossil fuels?

  • Protesters hold a banner reading 'there's no growth on a dead planet'

    What will expanding Heathrow do to UK’s net zero plans?

July 2025

  • Colosseum and people with umbrellas and shirtless man

    EU targets 90% cut in emissions by 2040 as green groups cry foul

  • Aerial view of rainforest in Amazonas state, Brazil, as the sun hangs low over the river

    EU may allow carbon credits from developing countries to count towards climate goals

June 2025

  • Aerial view of felled trees and cleared land in Pará state, Brazil; they lie one side of a track with dark green forest on the other

    Rise in legal challenges over carbon credit schemes

  • A hand holds a dropper dropping liquid into a lab beaker with seawater and fish representing the ocean.

    Our acidifying oceans
    A drop in the ocean: does experimental technology hold the key to saving the world’s seas?

May 2025

  • He stands in a field with a sheepdog at his feet

    Can trade in soil carbon credits help farmers – and the climate?

  • Bulrushes in a field

    The alternatives
    ‘A win-win for farmers’: how flooding fields in north-west England could boost crops

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