Both the government and the Climate Change Commission have misrepresented how much land will be covered in forests in 2050 with current emissions policies.
In its final report, the Commission told the government the existing policies and the Emissions Trading Scheme at $50 will deliver net zero emissions in 2050.
That extraordinary finding put a significant dent in the case for the Commission’s plan which has us paying somewhere between $250 and more than $500 per tonne of emissions – not $50 – to achieve the same emissions goal.
The Commission needed a way to explain why we should not stick with existing policies, which its own modelling shows more affordable and as effective as their plan. Their primary argument is that existing policies plant too many exotic trees.
The Commission and ministers have made various statements to this effect. For example, back in June, James Shaw told Parliament’s Environment…
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