NZ’s carbon forestry offsets on trial in High Court caseFriday 20 Jun 2025
The judicial review filed on Tuesday by advocacy groups Lawyers for Climate Action and the Environmental Law Initiative has a broad focus, arguing the current Government has erred in how it revised its predecessor’s climate plan and how it assembled its own. But one of the specific claims the lawyers make in their filing targets the policy consensus on trees, highlighting that scientific research increasingly suggests carbon sequestered by trees should not offset carbon emitted to the atmosphere. “It’s very significant. To our knowledge, it’s the first challenge in the world against a government on this issue,” Jessica Palairet, the executive director of Lawyers for Climate Action, told Newsroom. More >> Source: Newsroom  | ||
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