Carry-over credits and carbon offsets are hot topics this election – but what do they actually mean?

In this election, often dubbed the “climate election”, voters are refusing to settle for weak policies on climate change.

Organisations can use offsets as part of their emission reduction strategy.

But between the “will they/won’t they” question of whether the coalition will meet their climate targets and the costing of the ALP’s targets, there is a lot of misunderstanding, even among experts.

Unsurprisingly, even the best-informed voter is liable to struggle, particularly when generic terms like “carbon credits” are used to describe completely different things.

Read the story from The Conversation by a Senior Industry Fellow from RMIT University, Alan Pears, and a Fellow at the Melbourne Law School from the Australian-German Climate and Energy College at the University of Melbourne, Tim Baxter - “Carry-over credits and carbon offsets are hot topics this election – but what do they actually mean?”