Study finds Australia’s carbon offsets method failing to address climate crisis

A major study conducted by 11 academics has revealed that Australia’s primary carbon offsets method, known as “human-induced regeneration,” has largely failed to improve tree cover as promised, thus doing little to combat the climate crisis.

Published in the nature journal Communications Earth & Environment, the research analyzed 182 projects in arid and semi-desert areas, finding that forest cover had either stagnated or declined in nearly 80% of cases.