Some businesses will quit the Climate Active scheme due to cost increases that will result from federal government changes, predicts Iain Smale, managing director of sustainability consultancy Pangolin.
The Victorian government will direct $30.9 million towards restoring biodiversity and boosting carbon sequestration on at least 20,000 hectares of private land.
A scientist and public policy specialist who co-authored a paper critical of the ERF, on Friday proposed three actions to resolve the dispute over an ERF vegetation method and improve scheme governance.
Three governments – including South Australia's incoming Labor government – are taking steps to encourage farmers to deliver more abatement and protect biodiversity.