Dr Cris Brack, an honorary Associate Professor at The Australian National University (ANU), was commissioned by the Clean Energy Regulator to undertake a review of the ‘gateway checks’ done on human-induced regeneration (HIR) projects under the Australian carbon credit unit (ACCU) scheme.

The Minister for Climate and Energy and the Carbon Market Institute have cited Dr Brack’s report as a basis for refuting findings in a paper we published in a Nature journal concerning the underperformance of HIR projects. This paper discusses why Dr Brack’s report does not provide any basis for refuting the findings in our report.