Offsets for emissions breaches prove Australia has a carbon market, Labor says
by Adam Morton from Environment | The Guardian on (#3JCX2)
Industrial sites have spent millions on carbon credits under Direct Action's 'safeguard mechanism'
Sixteen Australian industrial sites have breached government-imposed greenhouse gas emissions limits and had to buy millions of dollars in carbon credits.
The breaches came despite big emitters being granted generous carbon limits, in many cases above their highest previous pollution levels.
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