{"id":849944,"date":"2026-08-10T06:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849944\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T06:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:14:11","slug":"new-carbon-credit-rules-made-the-left-wing-australia-institute-think-tank-jump-in-bed-with-the-logging-industry-how-did-this-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849944\/","title":{"rendered":"New carbon credit rules made the left-wing Australia Institute think tank jump in bed with the logging industry. How did this happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government recently approved new carbon credit rules that could deliver one of the biggest wins for forest conservation in decades, while also supporting a viable transition for forest workers and generating high-integrity carbon credits.<\/p>\n<p>The new rules allow some state governments to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/energy-and-climate\/carbon-credits-a-billion-dollar-question-dogging-labor-s-climate-plans-20260730-p60jy6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earn Australian carbon credit units<\/a> (ACCUs) if they stop logging public native forests. For example, if the NSW government ends logging in all state forests, it would earn more than $1 billion in carbon credit revenue over 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal government recently approved new carbon credit rules that could deliver one of the biggest wins for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-849944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}