Under pressure to adopt an essentially meaningless policy, a promise to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, Scott Morrison’s federal government may adopt a meaningless solution in the next budget – land use and forestry schemes for absorbing carbon.
In a variation on a dodge used by Australia to meet previous climate targets, the Morrison government could allocate a few billion dollars in the next federal budget to schemes of varying worth to turn soils and forests into carbon sinks.
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