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Carbon Trading officially underway in Australia ... (audio)
Carbon Trading officially underway in Australia ... (audio)
Professor Warwick MacKibbon from the ANU outlines the details to John Barron
17/06/2008 Environmental offsets, carbon credits and designer carrots

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

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

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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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

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
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

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.
12/12/2008 AgForward and BMRG deliver for the Burnett
Burnett region landholders have successfully undertaken biodiversity and sustainable productivity improvement on grounds works across more than 800 hectares of rural land during the past year using a tender process.
12/12/2008 AgForward and BMRG deliver for the Burnett
Burnett region landholders have successfully undertaken biodiversity and sustainable productivity improvement on grounds works across more than 800 hectares of rural land during the past year using a tender process.
5/12/2008 Playing the market for natural resource management
The Australian Knowledge Exchange (AKX) has been set up by CSIRO to test whether trading knowledge online can work for natural resource management.
19/12/2008 Water markets drowning in regulation
Chief executive of the National Water Commission, Ken Matthews, released the inaugural National Water Commission Australian Water Markets Report 2007-2008, and called for the removal of remaining barriers to trade in water in December 2008.
1/08/2009 2009-2010 NSW water trade rules for the southern rivers
Deputy Director-General, David Harriss,announced in July the temporary water trade rules that would apply in the NSW Murray, Murrumbidgee and Lower Darling River Valleys for 2009-2010.
3/12/2009 $6.5 million funding boost for land, coast and water projects
The South Australian Government has announced $6.5 million in funding for projects to care for our land, coast and water.
8/10/2009 Community natural resources project grants
Community groups across the South Australia are sharing in $2.5 million in funding to undertake local land care, coast care and water care projects, under a grants program announced by the State Government.
30/09/2009 16 million to further natural resources management reforms
South Australian Environment and Conservation Minister Jay Weatherill has announced $16 million funding package as part of the South Australian Government’s continuing reforms to natural resources management.
3/08/2009 73 community groups win state government grants
South Australian Environment and Conservation Minister Jay Weatherill has announced that 73 community groups across South Australia have won State Government grants to help with their local land care, coast care and water care projects.
8/10/2009 Planning approval granted for green offsets project
Plans are underway for a project to remove more than 1500 tonnes of salt from the Murray River catchment each year under new partnership between the NSW Government and paper manufacturing company Norske Skog, NSW Minister for Water, Phil Costa announced.
1/12/2009 Trees on farms
An innovative tree planting project being developed by Forestry Tasmania will deliver significant benefits to farmers and help offset global warming.
24/10/2009 Tasmania leads the way on international day of climate action
The Tasmanian Minister Assisting the Premier on Climate Change, Lisa Singh, said Tasmania had shown great innovation and leadership in response to climate change.
6/11/2009 $2 million EcoTender program for West Gippsland
Landholders across West, Central and South Gippsland will be able to bid for a share of up to $2 million early next year to improve the environment on their property, under the Victorian Government’s EcoTender program.
31/08/2009 Review of native vegetation clearing released
Western Australian Environment Minister Donna Faragher said key recommendations have emerged from a review of the practice of clearing native vegetation in Western Australia.
Understanding how landowners feel about forest carbon sinks

Forests and Wood Products Australia Award Winner - ANU’s Dr Lyndall Bull

Reducing carbon emissions is one of the greatest global challenges of the century and in Australia, a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) will commence on 1 July 2011.
4/12/2009 Queensland Government funding to cut carbon kilos
More than 20 community groups are set to join the climate change fight and help Queenslanders cut their carbon kilos, with a total $230,000 in Queensland Government funding.
Queensland landscape set to become key weapon in carbon reduction
1/12/2009 Queensland motorists given green light to offset their vehicles
For only $59 a year, Queenslanders can now fully offset the greenhouse gas emissions from their family sedan under a new Queensland Government program.
23/10/2009 Queensland Government funding helping to protect the environment
Community natural resource management groups across Queensland can now apply for a slice of $100,000 on offer from the Queensland Government to help further protect our environment
10/07/2009 Powerlink charges up Ecofund
The Queensland Government’s new vehicle for voluntary carbon offsets is officially up and running with an electricity Government Owned Corporation giving it a $750,000 kick-start.