Farming in 2050: storing carbon could help meet Australia’s climate goals
Growing population, growing demand for food, climate change: Australia's rural lands are facing a number of pressures. So how can we sustainably use them in the future?
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Australia’s climate targets still out of reach after second emissions auction
The latest emissions auction closes the gap to Australia's climate target, but still leaves work to be done.
Australia’s plantation boom has gone bust, so let’s make them carbon farms
The GFC killed off Australia's timber plantation boom, leaving behind a million hectares of timber. But by recognising the carbon value in these trees, a new industry could grow in place of the old.
Bonn climate summit brings us slowly closer to a global deal
The mid year Bonn negotiations for the proposed new global agreement to tackle climate change have just concluded. They will be finalised at the end of the year in Paris. What progress is being made? What are the challenging issues that may end up being a focus of negotiations in Paris? What does the roadmap from here look like?
Infographic: emissions reduction auction results at a glance
The first round of contracts for Australia's Emissions Reduction Fund have been awarded, at an average price of just under A$14 a tonne. How do the numbers stack up, and what projects are the big winners?
Indonesia’s vast mangroves are a treasure worth saving
Mangroves, hectare for hectare, store more carbon than any other forests. But they are also among the most threatened. New projects in Indonesia show how mangroves might be restored.
Farming carbon can be a win for wildlife, if the price is right
With bids open today for the government's Emissions Reduction Fund, experts explain how storing carbon can be a win for wildlife too.
We mustn’t waste water while taking action on climate change
Should we pick and choose our climate strategies based on how water-wise they are? As our new research published in Climatic Change shows, some activities aimed at tackling greenhouse emissions can also…
Carbon farming initiative will fail farmers and rural communities
Australian farmers and rural land owners are being told that they will be given powerful and direct incentives to store carbon in the land under the federal government’s new climate policy. But is that…
The key to fighting climate change is in the land
Australia could lead the world in combating climate change. Wouldn’t you like to believe this was true? Actually though, Australia has a world-beating model to deal with climate change. But I’m not talking…
Coalition’s carbon policy based on failed Labor scheme
Australia’s two major parties have promised to reduce the country’s emissions by 5% by 2020, with two different approaches. Labor has used carbon farming as part of its approach; the Coalition is making…
Profits from forests? Leave the trees standing
In debates about climate change and the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, there is a widely-held belief that market mechanisms, like the Labor government’s carbon pricing scheme, will reduce emissions…
Study reveals potential to farm carbon
Research conducted at the Everglades Research Park at Florida Gulf Coast University has shown the potential for man-made…
Carbon farming could restore Australia’s southern coastal wetlands
Australia’s southern coastal wetlands are more diverse than most people realise. In a recent paper, Paul Boon suggests they provide valuable ecological services that exceed those of inland wetland ecosystems…
Which of our forests should be managed for carbon?
The Australian Government has recently committed to a second round of the Kyoto Protocol to run from 2013-2020. In doing so, Australia is required to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 5…
Reducing methane from dairy cows: it’s all in the oil
The Carbon Farming Initiative is about to provide incentives for dairy farmers to reduce emissions from their milking cows. Emissions will be reduced by changing the cows’ diet. The proposed new methodology…
Savanna burning: carbon pays for conservation in northern Australia
Fire and biodiversity have a complex relationship in northern Australia. Tim Flannery and others blame the current northern biodiversity crisis, at least in part, on changed fire regimes. Improving fire…
Carbon farming: a solution to global land degradation and poverty?
Today, nearly 1.3 billion people – almost a fifth of the world’s population - live on “fragile” agricultural land. Just one-third of the rural poor in developing countries live on productive agricultural…
Making the Carbon Farming Initiative more appealing to farmers
The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) and Biodiversity Fund, two new Australian government initiatives, could help private landholders generate income while benefiting both climate change abatement and biodiversity…
Biodiversity and farming: finding ways to co-exist
Biodiversity and farming go head to head in two R&D projects that I have a hand in. The struggles to both feed the swelling ranks of humanity and save our continent’s natural splendour are so often…
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