A bonus episode! Here, you’ll hear all about the greenwashing and double-think world of carbon and biodiversity offsetting in Australia. this episode comes out hand in hand with an article Bec and Lotta wrote for Cheek Media: Carbon and Biodiversity Offsets are the Girl Math of the corporate world - but their consequences affect us all.
We believe in people being able to critically assess the claims of corporation and government and here we hope to shed some light on the trickeries hidden behind claims of carbon neutral or nature neutral. Learn about how frogs can’t fly (but are expected to), oil companies are rigging the system for more profit and how life on earth has no price tag.
For more information check out:
BIODIVERSITY
- Research from the Australian Conservation Foundation about how biodiversity offsets aren't protected.
- A news article by the ABC about the Australian government review about the failings of the biodiversity offset scheme.
- A detailed report by Carbon Brief on the issues associated with biodiversity offsets.
CARBON
- Research by Haizea Analytics, ANU, UNSW and UQ about the inefficacy of human-induced regeneration carbon offsets
- Research by the Australia Institute about the issues with avoided deforestation carbon offsets
- Australian government website about the Chubb Review into the ACCU system