Can the government's new market mechanism help save nature? Yes – if we get the devil out of the detail

  • Written by: Patrick O'Connor, Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
Can the government's new market mechanism help save nature? Yes – if we get the devil out of the detailShutterstock

Australians woke up this morning to discover they had a nature repair market, after the legislation passed late last night.

Except it won’t be called a market, after amendments by the Greens, and it won’t include biodiversity offsets.

Many experts have been highly sceptical of using market forces to reverse the damage...

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