The Federal Government announced today that the Environmental Plantings methodology under the Carbon Farming Initiative has been approved.
What this announcement means is that finally farmers and land managers across Australia will be able to generate extra income by planting of permanent stands of native forest trees, something most farmers have been doing for years.
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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:
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
Continue Reading →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.
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 ...
I often hear the comment “whatever Australia does domestically to reduce its emissions, it will have no real impact on global temperatures” and get asked the question “what are countries like China and India doing to reduce their emissions”
Now while it’s true that Australia’s emissions are very low on a per country basis (though we are the highest per capita) and whatever we do will not have a significant impact globally, under the Kyoto protocol, we are one ...
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