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Forestry Out of Emissions Scheme | Auckland News
New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme is in crisis, says Parliamentary Commissioner Simon Upton — it’s “rudderless” and needs urgent reform. His key demand? Remove forestry from the system entirely. He argues that letting forests earn carbon credits has become a loophole for polluters to dodge real emission cuts, effectively delaying action. While forestry was meant as a temporary bridge to cleaner tech, it’s now enabling continued pollution. With no cap on new forest credits, the market’s carbon price is destabilized, and climate events like fires and droughts threaten stored carbon —…
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