AUSTRALIA’S former chief scientist says the country’s carbon industry needs to improve its communication to maintain trust in the wider community.
Professor Ian Chubb recently headed up a review of the framework underpinning Australian Carbon Credit Units – which ultimately found the scheme to be of high integrity and did not recommend any large sweeping changes.
However, the review recommended more transparency from the carbon industry, in-order to educate the public about its role and the methodologies used to generate ACCUs. Prof Chubb told a recent Carbon Market Institute…