Direct Action paying polluters to avoid clearing land they would never have cleared – report

Green Institute report says centrepiece of Coalition’s emissions reductions scheme shouldn’t count as real abatement Australia’s “Direct Action” policy aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions is paying polluters millions of dollars to avoid pollution they probably would not have emitted anyway, according to in-depth analysis.The centrepiece of the government’s Direct Action scheme, introduced by the former prime minister Tony Abbott, is the emissions reduct