Posts Tagged 'Carbon Price'

Carbon Farming Begins Business

The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) Administrator has been appointed and the CFI is now operational which will allow land managers, farmers and landfill operators to participate in carbon markets.

The Government has taken industry views into account in making regulations for:

the Australian National Registry of Emission Units which will support both the Carbon Farming Initiative and the carbon pricing mechanism;
An initial list of activities which will be eligible under the CFI once technical methodologies are ...

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8
DEC

Categories: Carbon farming, Carbon Farming Initiative, DCCEE

Tags: Carbon Farming Initiative, Carbon Price, Carbon trading, DOCCEE, Green energy, Kyoto protocol, manure management, Methane, sequestration

Funding for Carbon Farming Futures

The Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Food have launched “Filling the Research Gap” as part of its Carbon Farming Futures Program. 201 million dollars will be invested to support research into emerging abatement technologies, strategies and innovative management practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the land sector, sequester carbon and enhance sustainable agricultural practices.

The funding is available to Australian companies, business, research organisation, government agencies and departments. Research priorities for funding ...

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13
NOV

Categories: Carbon Farming Futures, Carbon Farming Initiative

Tags: Biochar, Bioenergy, biofuels, biogas, Carbon Farming Initiative, Carbon Price, Carbon trading, Clean energy, Climate change, DOCCEE, Green energy, manure management, Methane, Renewable Energy

The pros and cons of a carbon price for agriculture

ABC News Online takes an unbiased look at how a price on carbon affects agriculture. The costs that are likely to increase, the opportunities for farmers and the future.

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16
OCT

Categories: Blog, Carbon farming, Carbon Farming Initiative, Carbon tax

Tags: Biochar, Carbon Farming Initiative, Carbon Price, Carbon trading, Clean energy

Countryman Response 21st July

Energy Farmers Countryman Letter

There is still a lot of negativity in the agriculture community about the governments Clean Energy Future policy, here is a letter written to the Countryman about why the policy has merit! See the link here

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14
AUG

Categories: Bioenergy, Carbon Farming Initiative, Carbon tax

Tags: Biochar, Bioenergy, biofuels, biogas, Carbon Farming Initiative, Carbon Price, Carbon trading, Clean energy, Climate change, Countryman, DOCCEE, Green energy, Kyoto protocol, manure management, Methane, Oil crunch, Peak oil, Renewable Energy, science, sequestration

Pick a winner – Bioenergy

This a great article on how Europe is using a carbon tax to finance bioenergy and highlights how far behind Australia is.

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15
JUL

Categories: Bioenergy, Carbon tax

Tags: biofuels, biogas, Carbon Price, Carbon trading, manure management, Methane, Renewable Energy

Carbon Price – Insuring our future

Whatever side of the political fence you sit the federal government’s announcement yesterday does have some good outcomes for rural communities.

The Carbon Faming Initiative will pay farmers who change the way they farm and use practices that lock up carbon in trees or in the soil and who reduce their on farm emissions.

Carbon Farming Futures Program ($429 million over the first six years) will help farmers and landholders benefit from carbon farming by ...

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11
JUL

Categories: Biodiversity, Bioenergy, Blog, Carbon Farming Futures, Carbon Farming Initiative, Carbon tax, Peak Oil

Tags: Biodiversity, Carbon Farming Initiative, Carbon Price, DOCCEE, Peak oil, Renewable Energy

More carbon farming methodologies

The federal government’s Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DOCCEE) have released another two draft carbon farming methodologies for public comment under the Carbon Farming Initiative. Comments open until 26th July 2011.

1. Environmental Plantings

This methodology involves the establishment and management of permanent native forests that increase removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The abatement activity includes planting and/or seeding native species on cleared or ...

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28
JUN

Categories: Carbon Farming Initiative

Tags: Afforestation, Bioenergy, biogas, Carbon Price, Carbon trading, Kyoto protocol, manure management, Methane, sequestration, tree planting

Release of carbon farming initiative positive and negative list consultation paper.

The Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency released the positive and negative list discussion paper for the Carbon Farming Initiative yesterday.

The positive list identifies activities that would be considered additional and eligible to participate in the scheme while the negative list identifies activities that are ineligible in certain circumstances because they risk adverse impacts on communities and the environment.

The consultation paper provides an opportunity for stakeholders to comment on the approach to developing the positive and negative lists and ...

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14
JUN

Categories: Agriculture, Carbon Farming Initiative

Tags: Afforestation, Bioenergy, Carbon Price, Climate change, sequestration

Get in behind.

The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) and Sheep & Meat Producers Australia have released a report stating that sheep and meat producers in Australia will endure a 16 percent loss in business revenue under the Government’s proposed carbon tax. You can access the full article and report here.

I encourage groups like NFF and for all members of the farming industry to carry out these types of studies however, I believe that this particular study is a little off the mark ...

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7
JUN

Categories: Carbon farming, Carbon Farming Futures, Carbon tax

Tags: Bioenergy, Carbon Farming Initiative, Carbon Price, Climate change, Renewable Energy, sequestration