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Carbon Trading officially underway in Australia ... (audio)
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Carbon Trading officially underway in Australia ... (audio)
Professor Warwick MacKibbon from the ANU outlines the details to John Barron
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| 17/06/2008 |
Environmental offsets, carbon credits and designer carrots
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The new online Designer Carrots metric essentials tool and decision support tool are helping to build the capacity of regional natural resource management (NRM) groups to get them involved in carbon credit, environmental offset and other market-based instrument (MBI) programs. |
| 21/07/2008 |
New Ecotender demonstration announced
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The Victorian Government has selected the Port Phillip and Westernport catchment as Victoria’s next EcoTender demonstration area.
Environment and Climate Change Minister Gavin Jennings said the Port Phillip and Westernport demonstration is part of a $14 million ecoMarkets initiative. This follows the first demonstration in the Corangamite catchment. |
| 21/07/2008 |
Environmental offsets policy to guide Queensland development
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The Queensland Government has moved to ensure that environmental values aren’t lost as a result of development across the state.
The Queensland Government Environmental Offsets Policy, which took effect from 1 July 2008, will assist the Government and the public to protect Queensland's environmental values. |
| 9/09/2008 |
Encouraging participation in MBIs and incentive programs
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| According to a recent Land and Water Australia study, trust, business orientation, information-seeking behaviour and connectedness are among the best predictors of participation in a market-based instrument (MBI) or incentive program. |
| 15/08/2008 |
NSW’s Biodiversity Banking and Offsets Scheme explained
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| BioBanking is a new market-based initiative of the New South Wales (NSW) Government to provide a streamlined biodiversity assessment process for development, a rigorous and credible offsetting scheme and an opportunity for rural landowners to generate income by managing land for conservation. |
| 10/09/2008 |
Door wide open for private investment in the water industry
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| The New South Wales (NSW) Government has officially opened the door for private-sector involvement in the supply of water and sewerage services in the Sydney and Hunter regions. |
| 8/09/2008 |
Carbon partnership to benefit landholders
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| South East Queensland is set to become one of Australia's hotspots for carbon sequestration following the new partnership between South East Queensland (SEQ) Catchments and Australia's leading not-for-profit carbon trading organisation, Landcare CarbonSMART. |
| 8/09/2008 |
Successful MBI capacity building workshops
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| The eighteen two-day regional workshops have been completed. Held nationwide they have helped participants gain a better understanding of the role of MBIs among the NRM policy options, the range of MBIs, and their appropriate application to solve NRM problems. These workshops for regional NRM groups and for government agencies provided training, practical information, and a forum for discussion on the development, administration, communication, monitoring and evaluation of key MBI approaches. |
| 17/11/2008 |
Twenty video interviews conducted during Forum now available.
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| Twenty video interviews were conducted during the highly successful National MBI Forum in Brisbane in late September. The interviewees include people from all over Australia working in all areas of natural resource management (NRM) from economists and scientists to regional group project managers. |
| 17/11/2008 |
Presentations from the National MBI Forum are now available
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| Many of the PowerPoint presentations provided during the highly successful National MBI Forum in Brisbane in late September are now available as downloadable PDFs on this website. The presentations are on MBI topics from all over Australia in all areas of natural resource management (NRM). |
| 19/11/2008 |
Playing the market for natural resource management
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CSIRO economists are inviting people in Canberra, Sydney and southern NSW to join the Australian Knowledge Exchange (AKX) – an online prediction market which aims to forecast water availability.
The AKX has been set up by CSIRO to test whether trading knowledge online can work for natural resource management. |
| 7/11/2008 |
Carbon pooling pays farmers for leaving trees in the ground
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| Atherton Tablelands farmers in far north Queensland could receive up front payments to leave trees in the ground under a United Nations backed carbon pooling and biodiversity program. |
| 21/11/2008 |
Earthtrade working with landholders and offsets
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Earthtrade is the commercial arm of Burnett Mary Regional Group. Currently, Earthtrade provides an environmental brokerage service for landholders and developers.
Earthtrade, as the broker, acts as the agent or middle man between the landholder and the developer and can assist in finding a developer interested in a landholder’s vegetation asset. |