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ABC Landline - Carbon FarmingGraphic Source:carbonfarming.wordpress.com
Video First Published: 27/04/2008 A little out of date - the CPRS will now be introduced by 2013 and agriculture is exempt until 2015. |
ABC Landline - Building CarbonBroadcast April 2009
COLIN SEIS: We've done an audit here on this place and we are sequestering about 7,000 tonne over the whole property and we are emitting about 2,000 tonne. So we're in credit for 5,000 tonne. The Garnaut Inquiry Final Report estimates that Australian soils can sequester conservatively, 600 million tonnes of CO2e pa. At $20/tonne, that is a $12 billion incentive for Australian farmers to change their land management and adopt carbon farming. That money can save rural communities; it can save family farming; it can save rural landscapes and restore soils. And, as Garnaut sees it paid for between 25-50 years, it can help Agriculture prepare for and even prosper in the dryer, hotter future we are assured is coming. |