Carbon offsets in Australia

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Australia

Carbon offsets in the Australian market:

Standards[edit | edit source]

NCOS is the Australian Government's "National Carbon Offset Standard".[1]

Internationally, the Gold Standard Foundation has significant support, describing itself as "A best practice methodology and a high quality carbon credit label for both Kyoto and voluntary markets".

Airlines[edit | edit source]

The Qantas group and other airlines offer carbon credits to customers booking flights online, but the percentage taking up the offer is very small.

An analysis from 2008 suggested that less than 1% of Qantas passengers paid the offset, with figures for Virgin Blue suspected to be around the same, while 12% of Jetstar passengers paid.^[1]

Resources for further research[edit | edit source]

The Australian Government has a page of useful links for the purchase of NCOS eligible offsets

Notes and references[edit | edit source]

See also[edit | edit source]

• Air travel, climate change, and green consumerism

External links[edit | edit source]

• Should You Pay For Carbon Offsets When You Fly?, 4 April 2011, Lifehacker Australia.
• Carbon offsets (Updated: 25 Jul 2012). CHOICE (consumer advocacy organisation).
• Carbon Offset Program | Jetstar (budget airline in the Qantas group)

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Keywords	climate change, carbon footprint, carbon offsets, energy efficiency, ecological footprint, renewable energy
SDG	SDG07 Affordable and clean energy, SDG13 Climate action
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