Government proposes to create a market to incentivise biodiversity investment | 7.30

You may be familiar with the idea of carbon credits or offsets - people or organisations being paid for making changes which reduce carbon emissions - but there is also a similar mechanism for protecting Australia’s biodiversity.

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has championed the idea of encouraging investors to protect environmental diversity in partnership with private landowners, but the scheme is facing resistance in Federal Parliament. Here's chief political correspondent Laura Tingle

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