Western Australia Greens criticise federal party over native forest carbon credits

The Western Australian Greens have publicly opposed their federal party's decision not to support a disallowance motion against the federal government's Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) carbon credit method. This method allows state governments to generate carbon credits by halting planned timber harvesting in public native forests. Critics argue these offsets do not reduce overall emissions but enable industrial emitters to compensate for fossil fuel emissions. The defeat of the disallowance motion means the INFM methodology remains active, potentially yielding up to 1.5 million carbon credits.

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