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CDP: U.S. farmers' GHG disclosures and management varied

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... capability to report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and identify areas of successful emissions management and sustainable farming practices, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). The CDP conducted a pilot study with agricultural CDP supply ...

Carbon Farming Initiative welcomed, more work to come

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
The launch of the Carbon Farming Initiative brings opportunities for landholders to generate tradeable carbon credits from carbon abatement and sequestration activities. At the moment, the CFI only recognises three procedures to generating carbon credits ...

Carbon credits to be regulated as financial products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
Companies that sell tradeable carbon credits generated under the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) will have to register for an Australian Financial Services (AFS) license as part of draft legislation from the federal government. The federal government ...

Low Carbon Australia relaunches Carbon Offset Guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... knowledge of trends within the carbon offset industry." The Guide includes information about the introduction of the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) to the Australian market. CFI provides incentives to landholders, farmers and forest growers incentives ...

Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders revenue opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) will provide opportunities for landholders to generate tradeable carbon credits from carbon abatement and sequestration activities. But while landholders across Australian industrial sectors potentially stand to offset ...

R. M. Williams Agricultural Holdings to fund NT property conservation with carbon rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... put into the National Reserve System and fund it with carbon rights. It will feed directly into the government's carbon farming initiative and carbon pricing policy." In a statement, Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Mark ...

Carbon price package could yield greater than expected reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... introduction of a carbon price and the combined impact of all of the complementary measures in the package including the Carbon Farming Initiative, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the proposed National Energy Savings Initiative for energy efficiency ...