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Climate Friendly, Corporate Carbon Advisory in CFI project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Climate Friendly and Corporate Carbon Advisory have developed a biomass project for inclusion under the Carbon Farming Initiative, and are exploring new projects for inclusion under the proposed Direct Action Plan. Climate Friendly and Corporate Carbon ...

Net Balance urges co-benefits approach for carbon offsets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... Direct Action Plan (DAP) for meeting the stated goal of reducing carbon emissions by 5% by 2020 will build on the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) and will establish an Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) to provide incentives for abatement activities. The ...

EY: Direct Action Plan will offer opportunities for business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... it is willing to listen to business during the consultation period." The government has said it will retain the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) as part of the DAP. The terms of reference outline an increased role for the CFI in the ERF, and will be extended ...

Bush Heritage Australia fund pays farmers for conservation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... signed up thus far. It is intended to make it affordable for farmers to establish conservation as an enterprise within a farming business - landowners are paid an annual fee for putting a portion of their land under conservation management for a minimum ...

ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... number of funding cuts, including cutting the Biodiversity Fund's forward funding by AU$213 million and cutting the Carbon Farming Futures program's forward funding by AU$143 million. "The cuts around the Biodiversity Fund and the Carbon Farming Futures ...

CEFC in active discussions with project proponents

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Rudd announced the government would cut the Biodiversity Fund's forward funding by AU$213 million and cutting the Carbon Farming Futures program's forward funding by AU$143 million, as well as cuts to the Clean Technology Investment Program. The CEFC ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Greenfleet, a reforestation not-for-profit, has had two of its reforestation projects registered under the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI). Greenfleet used the CFI's Sequestration: Quantifying Carbon Sequestration by Permanent Environmental Plantings ...

Companies advised to manage carbon price future uncertainty

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... the Emissions Reduction Fund, which would be used to purchase abatement. The Coalition says it will retain the Carbon Farming Initiative, but without a domestic market, its role is unclear. "The main issue is really how the carbon price has been factored ...

Norton Rose launches clean energy law service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Australia's clean energy policies including the carbon pricing mechanism, renewable energy, energy efficiency, the carbon farming initiative, fuel tax credits, synthetic greenhouse gases, accounting and disclosures, grants, and taxation incentives. Norton ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... working with farmer groups are realistic and would seem to be paying dividends. The desire to build a more sustainable farming community seems real, though the dairy farmers supplying $1 milk will be hoping the efforts accelerate. On 'responsible gaming' ...