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Carbon credit review falls short on CO2 capture and slavery

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... currently conducting the review. ACCUs are currently credited for carbon capture and storage under the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF). However, CCUS - and particularly DACCS - have been criticised by environmental groups for being costly, resource intensive ...

Warakirri launches Sustainability Broadacre Cropping Strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... coming years. It is also participating in the Governments Carbon and Biodiversity Pilot Program under the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF). The firm has been investing in and developing large-scale broadacre assets since the 1990s and this year oversaw ...

Demystifying ACCUs: What are carbon credits and how do they work? - Gary Wyatt

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... Petrass speaks with Gary Wyatt, Group Managing Director of Corporate Carbon - Australia's largest Emissions Reduction Fund project owner. The Carbon Farming Initiative offsets developer has more than 3 million acres of land under active management ...

IGCC calls on government to boost Aussie green industry

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... Energy Agency's (ARENA) to make investments with higher risk tolerance in the priority sectors, and update Emissions Reduction Fund goals to greater incentivises businesses, households, and landowners to reduce emissions. The report found that while ...

Safeguard Mechanism reforms to prompt ACCU demand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... CBA said in the research piece. "The government would likely need to incentivise ACCU deliveries to the Emissions Reduction Fund (via more future fixed carbon abatement contracts (CAC)). "Such a step could see ACCU supply dry up from the secondary market ...

HSBC funds blue carbon projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... aggregate projects on privately-owned sites so they can be registered collectively under the Australian Emissions Reduction Fund and sell ACCUs to the Federal government on secondary markets. The pilot has support from the Federal, Queensland and South ...

Fiji, Australia sign Indo-Pacific Carbon Offsets Scheme deal at COP26

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... Indo-Pacific Carbon Offsets Scheme. The scheme was announced in April and is modelled on Australia's Emissions Reduction Fund. Its aim is to develop a high-integrity carbon offset scheme in the Indo-Pacific region. The Australian government is investing ...

Plant agriculture sector in net zero policies: Grattan Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... should encourage deployment of lower emissions technology and practices. This can be done through the Emissions Reduction Fund by expanding methods related to agricultural practices, for example. The federal government should also invest in a multi-decade ...

Assessing the financial, ESG benefits of agricultural investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... commodity is the environmental market." Based solely on current activities in the federal government's Emissions Reduction Fund, generation of carbon credits and biodiversity activities already have a measurable, positive return profile, O'Leary said. ...

IPCC report highlights need for urgent action in Australia: CMI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... could drive a lot harder than the Paris goals." The safeguard mechanism is complementary to the voluntary Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF), where the government pays businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for specific projects. ERF participation ...
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