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
ShutterstockAustralians 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...





