{"id":1194685,"date":"2023-08-29T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/?p=370992"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:00:07","slug":"the-price-of-green-city-of-sydney-pays-chinese-turks-to-get-net-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/29\/the-price-of-green-city-of-sydney-pays-chinese-turks-to-get-net-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Green: City of Sydney pays Chinese, Turks to get net zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/tony-shi-hou-tang-dLKXWI3nX2Q-unsplash-e1693311096179.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Carbon offsets, City of Sydney, ACCUs\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/tony-shi-hou-tang-dLKXWI3nX2Q-unsplash-e1693311096179.jpg 800w, https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/tony-shi-hou-tang-dLKXWI3nX2Q-unsplash-e1693311096179-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>The City of Sydney and City of Melbourne have been relying heavily on cheap Chinese and Turkish carbon offsets to get to net zero. Does paying foreign governments make sense? Callum Foote investigates.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/the-price-of-green-city-of-sydney-pays-chinese-turks-to-get-net-zero\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Sydney and City of Melbourne have been relying heavily on cheap Chinese and Turkish carbon offsets to get to net zero. Does paying foreign governments make sense? Callum Foote investigates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1875,45736],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194686,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194685\/revisions\/1194686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}