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Information at a glance

What is an MBI?
Market-based instruments (MBIs) are tools that use market-like approaches as an incentive for beneficial environmental and sustainable natural resource management (NRM) practices. MBIs are also known as economic incentives...

Publications
The Publications section holds a vast array of detailed MBI information. This includes in-depth pilot case studies, decision support tools, guidelines, fact sheets, MBI training modules and a library containing further MBI documents...

Designing MBI's
This section provides some introductory information on designing and implementing a range of MBIs for natural resource management...

MBIs in Action
This section shows how regional natural resource management stakeholders are getting involved in MBIs and provides examples of current case studies...

Latest News

3/04/2012 Decision Support Tool—choosing an appropriate MBI

Often resource managers are attracted to the idea of using market-based instruments in natural resource management (NRM), but don’t know where to start. Designer Carrots hosts the Decision Support Tool (DST) for just this reason; to aid the selection of market-based instruments for NRM. The purpose of the tool is firstly to help managers assess whether an MBI is suitable for addressing a particular NRM issue, and secondly in ascertaining which type of MBI is most appropriate.

30/03/2012 The Soil Carbon Research Program

In order to include agriculture in the carbon market it must be possible to measure soil carbon in an efficient and inexpensive way and at scales small enough to be applicable at a farming level. The Soil Carbon Research Program brings together soil carbon researchers from CSIRO, state government agencies and universities to deliver a coordinated program of research projects to address this issue as well as identifying farming management practises with the potential to increase soil carbon.

28/03/2012 Cap-and-trade emissions trading

The carbon pricing mechanism will be introduced in Australia in two stages. From July 2015, following a fixed price for carbon from July 2012, carbon trading will transition to a ‘cap-and-trade’ emissions trading scheme. In this second stage the number of carbon permits issued by the Clean Energy Regulator each year will be decided by a pollution cap and traded through an ascending–clock auction process.