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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 ...

Business, investors get certainty as carbon package passes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... regulations to implement the carbon pricing regime. Within the jobs and competitiveness package, the allocation of free carbon credits for electricity use is one concern, Anderson said. "Of particular interest to many clients is one of the provisions ...

Renewable energy poses opportunities, risks for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... local and state based regulation is an impediment." Photo via Wikimedia Commons See Also: Pacific Hydro to trade carbon credits from Chilean hydro project

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
... permanently removed from the property and a conservation plan implemented, with the expectation of generating up to 1.5m carbon credits a year. The project will restore the landscape and protect several endangered species and will be achieved through ...

Pacific Hydro to trade carbon credits from Chilean hydro project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... owned by Industry Funds Management's Australian Infrastructure Fund, has received permission to create and trade carbon credits derived from a river hydro asset in Chile. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the United Nations Framework Convention ...