{"id":251378,"date":"2026-05-21T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/macintosh-attacks-accu-schemes-while-infm-faces-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:45:09","slug":"macintosh-attacks-accu-schemes-while-infm-faces-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/macintosh-attacks-accu-schemes-while-infm-faces-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Macintosh Attacks ACCU Schemes While INFM Faces Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/macintosh-attacks-accu-schemes-infm-integrity-crisis\/\">Macintosh Attacks ACCU Schemes While INFM Faces Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/macintosh-attacks-accu-schemes-infm-integrity-crisis\/\">https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/macintosh-attacks-accu-schemes-infm-integrity-crisis\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 09:36:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"woodcentral.com.au\">woodcentral.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The carbon credit methodology that will determine whether the Great Koala National Park is created is exposed to the same additionality and leakage failures that Australian National University professor Andrew Macintosh has used to attack the integrity of other carbon schemes. That is according to Forest &#038; Wood Communities Australia chair Steve Dobbyns, who said it was deeply ironic to watch Macintosh question other Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) schemes whilst the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method tied to the park faced serious integrity questions of its own.<\/p>\n<p>Dobbyns, who leads the national body representing forestry businesses and timber communities, said the scrutiny now surrounding the INFM proposal pointed to growing concern that the methodology could fail some of the most fundamental tests Australia\u2019s carbon framework demands. The two biggest problems were additionality and leakage, he said, and both went to the heart of the scheme\u2019s credibility.<\/p>\n<p>The additionality concern was particularly acute because the NSW Government had already made a political decision to establish the Great Koala National Park, Dobbyns said, leaving open the question of what the ACCU scheme would genuinely be paying for. The whole premise of additionality is that credits should only be issued for activities that would not otherwise occur, he said, and a park the Government had already committed to creating risked rewarding a pre-existing policy decision rather than new abatement.<\/p>\n<p>Dobbyns said even Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee chair Karen Hussey had acknowledged during Senate Estimates that additionality and leakage were key integrity risks requiring careful scrutiny. The leakage problem was even more glaring, he said, because removing native forestry from NSW did nothing to remove Australia\u2019s need for timber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStopping native forestry in NSW does not stop Australians needing timber,\u201d Dobbyns said.<\/p>\n<p>Australia would still need&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/macintosh-attacks-accu-schemes-infm-integrity-crisis\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macintosh Attacks ACCU Schemes While INFM Faces Crisis https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/macintosh-attacks-accu-schemes-infm-integrity-crisis\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-21 09:36:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/great-koala-park-carbon-scheme-fwca-steve-dobbyns-discover-1200x675-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-251378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-macintosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251380,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251378\/revisions\/251380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}