Worsening carbon offset reliance: worst of all for fossil fuels

Most of all for the oil, gas and coal mining sectors: coal mining now 'offsets' a full 20% of its greenhouse gas emissions to "comply" with the scheme.

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Total offset use for each FY, relative to 'total covered emissions'. Offsets include both ACCUs and SMCs. By ANZSIC code.

Chart: Ketan Joshi, The Australia InstituteSource: DCCEEWGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper