State-Sponsored Greenwash: Offsetting Us Up to Fail

With Polly Hemming & Marian Wilkinson / Chair: Paul Barclay

Brought to you by The Australia Institute in partnership with Adelaide Writers’ Week

While Australia has signed up to ’net zero emissions’ by 2050, governments and industry are still pursuing an agenda of fossil fuel expansion. Clever accounting, dodgy offsets and technocratic fantasies like carbon capture and storage continue to be used to conceal the fundamental contradiction between plans to increase gas and coal production and promises to tackle climate change. This session exposes Australia’s greenwash and regulatory capture – the critical first step to robust climate policy.

Please note: Unfortunately, Bob Brown has had to withdraw from this session.

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Paul Barclay is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and broadcaster. He is currently the presenter and producer of Big Ideas on ABC Radio National.

Polly Hemming is a senior researcher in the Australia Institute’s Climate & Energy Program. Her current work focuses on carbon markets, climate integrity and greenwash. In a former life, she led an eco-label green-washing climate action by the private sector.

Marian Wilkinson is a multi-award-winning journalist with a career that has spanned radio, television and print. She has written several books, including political biography The Fixer, on former Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson, and Dark Victory, co-authored with David Marr. Her latest book is The Carbon Club.

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