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The earliest breakthrough in soil carbon trading has occurred in regional Australia. Louisa Kiely from Carbon Farmers of Australia explains how they work.
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2. Carbon Farming Expo & Conference Mudgee 17-18 November 2007 3. Soil CarbonOn The National Agenda I am hearing more and more about the possible potential of enhancing the carbon stored in our soils [The Government will] investigate how better soil management can be part of Australias response to climate change. PM Kevin Rudd 4 March 2008 4. UN FAO calls for Soil Carbon Credits "It is essential to increase the resilience of present food production systems... We urge governments tocreate opportunitiesto enable the world's smallholderfarmers. toparticipate in , and benefit fromfinancial mechanisms and investment flowsto supportclimate change adaptation, mitigationand technology development 181 countries The High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy, convened by UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), 3-5 June, 2008 5. Soil Carbon must be in! Australia is well positioned to further increase carbon dioxide removal by soil,due to the sheer size of its land mass and the ability of its farming sector to adopt new management practices .Professor Ross Garnaut FINAL REPORT 6. Soil Carbon - DONT WAIT! The mitigation gains are potentially so large that it is important for Australia tocommence work on program design and implementation even before the issues of coverage , national and international, are fully resolved. Professor Ross Garnaut FINAL REPORT 7. STOP PRESS TIM GETS IT! "Atmospheric Cleansing "What plants do is pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sequester that carbon dioxide in measurable amounts in the biosphere. 8. The technologies then to do that are very straight forwardHolistic management, for example, is practised over about 10 million acres globally demonstrably increased carbon content in soils by up to three percent. And they give you better productivity, better soil moisture retention, better biodiversity protection, and these approaches are not expensive. " Were we able to increase carbon content of soils in the worlds rangelands by a mere two percent we could draw down hundreds of gigatonnes of carbon dioxide to sequester in those rangelands. Atmospheric Cleansing 9. In my view, the global carbon trading scheme is absolutely necessary in order to deal with this crisis. Carbon TradingAbsolutely Necessary 10. UN Food & Agriculture OrganisationConservation Agriculture Carbon Offset Consultation Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana,28-30 October, 2008 Mexico Columbia Brazil India Australia Ontario Manitoba Denmark British Columbia China America South Africa Germany Alberta Saskatchewan 11. Conservation Agriculture Carbon Offset ConsultationOfficial Communique 12. Official Communique 13. Conservation Agriculture Carbon Offset ConsultationOfficial Communique Official Communique 14. Official Communique 15. Official Communique 16. SOILS UNIQUE ROLE To Hold the Line? To Aborb the Legacy Load. 17. 18. If we stopped emitting CO2 today? 19. Legacy Load of CO2 20. If we stopped emitting today
Chair of IPCC* Rajendra Pachauri *Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sir David King Britains Chief Scientist Dr Susan Solomon U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Professor Ross Garnaut February 2008 AGOMarch 2005 21. Neither Clean Coal Nor Nuclear Power Nor Solar Energy Nor Wind Turbines NorLightbulbs can remove the Legacy Loadof CO2. 22. PHOTOSYNTHESIS CAPACITY DEPLOYMENT CRITICAL MASS ONLY AT MASSIVE AT FULL AND SIGNIFICANT CAN TACKLE THE LEGACY LOAD 23. 7 planets covered in forest Would sequester the CO2 already in the atmosphere 24. 25. 26. Increase Soil CarbonImproved Soil StructureBetter Water UseReduced SalinationSoil FertilityBiodiversityHealthy ProfitLess ErosionThe Benefits of Soil Carbon Credits Healthy ecologySoil Carbon CreditsHealthy Farm Families Stronger Rural Communities 27. Carbon Offsets
28. Compliance Market
29. Voluntary Market
30. Voluntary Market
31. Benefits of Voluntary Market
32. Regional Business Model for Carbon Trading Community Wind Farms Biofuels Big Emitters Recycled Biomass Community Education/ Involvement Employment Sustainable Farming Restored Farm Ecology 33. Pathway to Regional Sustainability
34. Principles
35. Knowledge Needs
36. How tos
37. Public Meeting Agenda
38. 39. Visioning The Ideal
40. Objectives
41. Collaborative Research
42. Other support
43. Outcomes
44. Way forward for companies
45. Options to Achieve
46. Possible offsets
47. Project Eligibility
48. Agriculture Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Pilot
49. Outcomes
50. International collaboration
51. Future Farm 52. Next steps
53. Practical Carbon Farming Advice
54. [email_address]