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Mar 1 9 tweets 5 min read
Oh cry me a river. How on earth could their projects be "undermined" by sharing data which could quickly an easily prove their integrity. #ACCU #climate #auspol
Also nice for GreenCollar to put this on "it's landholders" so if we call this out we're being mean to farmers, rather a multi-million dollar corporation.
The data carbon companies could freely release (the Regulator & all others are prohibited to release by law) are Carbon Estimation Areas (CEAs) - green shapes shown below
The project area shapefiles (around CEAs) are *already public* - downloadable here researchdata.edu.au/area-based-emi…
The project areas (public) are basically the property boundaries. So in terms of privacy, *we already know* who has carbon projects. This info is also freely available in the project register: cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/ERF/project-an…
The data that is *secret* are the particular areas - Carbon Estimation Areas or CEAs - within a property boundary/project area where carbon is being sequestered. Again, the green shapes in this figure (figure from this report law.anu.edu.au/sites/all/file…)
The Chubb review recommended the CFI Act be amended to enable the release of the CEA data. They cited the lack of transparency & access by third parties to CEA data as a core reason why ACCU integrity is in question. dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/…
Here is @CERegulator Chair David Parker @sarahinthesen8 yesterday that he believes it would be desirable to amend the CFI Act to enable the release of CEA data into the public domain.

This is not controversial.
The CFI Act secrecy provisions do not prevent carbon companies from releasing the CEA data themselves.

We could clear up #ACCU integrity issues once and for all with that data.

The government could also just amend the CFI Act as recommended.
It's not just the CEA data that's not in the public domain. And it's not just our team who is concerned. Others cannot speak out.

We know of at least 5 other reports related to the human-induced regeneration (HIR) method that either the Regulator or Dept has not made public.

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Mar 1
Two of the most mind-blowing things from #SafeguardMechanism @AuSenate inquiry this week were the govt saying:

1️⃣ the integrity of all existing #ACCUs is "fine"

2️⃣the Chubb review rec's only apply to *new projects* "going forward" - which is not what they said 4 weeks ago🧵
In this thread I'm sharing clips from the following videos, available here:

aph.gov.au/News_and_Event…

Monday 27/02/2023 Environment & Communications [Part 2]
Tuesday 28/02/2023 Environment & Communications [Part 2]
On Tues, @DCCEEW say Chubb made recommendations on how the HIR method should be interpreted *but* didn't say the method had been incorrectly interpreted to date.

@sarahinthesen8 "Why would you have to clarify interpretation if it [HIR] hadn't been misinterpreted?"
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Aug 25, 2021
Extremely Canberra niche humour but I am DECEASED
This whole article is a thing of beauty
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Aug 24, 2021
🚨New paper! 🚨

Email me for PDF (megan.evans@unsw.edu.au)

.@rini_rants and I interrogate the value and purpose of global maps in #conservation 👉
rdcu.be/cvWOY Image
It's no secret that conservation science (and journals, and the media) loves a good global map - and there's a lot of them. We found >150 global priority maps published since 2000 (and that's DEFINITELY an UNDERestimate) Image
So what? Maps can be super useful, and salient, and have helped (and continue to do so) raise awareness and $ for #conservation

But is there a risk we're overestimating their value? Image
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May 28, 2020
State schools are great schools 👊 Vienna Woods primary, Alexandra Hills State High #publiceducationday
I've always, unfortunately, had a bit of a cringe reflex when asked what school I went to (a compulsary, ubiquitous question for anyone living in Brisbane) because NOONE I met during undergraduate uni had heard of my school
Only one other student from my year in high school went to my uni (@UQ_News), my undergrad science peers mostly went to inner-city Brisbane high schools or private schools
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May 13, 2020
THIS. THERE IS NO ONE PATHWAY. If anyone, even if (especially if?) they are the *vice chancellor*, says the "only way" to get to X is to do Y, RUN.
At an early career academic development workshop 3 years ago, I asked my VC what advice they had for ECRs on developing their careers in the context of PhD oversupply and greater emphasis on research demonstrating "impact". Their response?
"Publish lots, in a single discipline, then when you get to Professor, you can look out the window and think about research impact"

YEAH NAH
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Feb 28, 2020
Working from home is trying to not have one dog constantly lick/lie on my mouse and and not be weirded out by the other staring at me 👀 #academicswithdogs ImageImage
(I've given up on mouse) Image
Mouse use continues to be unviable Image
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