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Farming Carbon in Australia:
implications for agribusiness under the CPRS
March 2009 Adelaide
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Overview
• History of Climate Change Policy
• Regulated schemes:
1. NSW Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme
2. DCC (AGO) GHF
3. Australian Government CPRS
• The policy effects
• Issues for business
• Emerging trends
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Conference of Parties
• Earth Summit Rio 1992 established UNFCCC• COP 1 – the Berlin Mandate• COP 3 – Kyoto Protocol• COP 6 – Bonn – sinks, flexibility, finance• COP 7 – Marrakech – the ‘rules’• COP 13 – Bali and Kevin 747• COP 15 – Copenhagen – post 2012
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• 45% chance of wheat crop value below current level
• 128% increase in tick related losses in net cattle production weight
• 55% of core habitat lost for eucalyptus• 16-48% decrease in flow in the Murray Darling
Basin
Source: CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research 2006.
“The business case for early action report” (April 2006) indicates potential impacts that a 3-4 degree increase in the average global surface temperature could have on landscape and agriculture:
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Total Net Emissions By Gas
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Total Emissions - Agriculture
1990
(Mt CO2 e)
2000
(Mt CO2 e)
2006
(Mt CO2 e)
87.7 95.5 90.1
Source: http://www.climatechange.gov.au/inventory/2006/index.html
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20552005
14
7
Billion of Tons of Carbon Emitted per Year
1955
0
Currently
projected path
Flat path
Historical emissions
1.9
2105
Seven “wedges”
Wedge Theory
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Energy Efficiency
Decarbonized Electricity
Fuel Displacement by Low-Carbon Electricity
Forests & Soils
Decarbonized Fuels
Stabilization Triangle
2004 2054
7 GtC/y
14 GtC/y
Seven Wedges
Methane Management
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NSW Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme
• Mandatory scheme for benchmark participants
• Large energy producers and users must meet set emissions targets
• If they miss their target, they pay a fine or offset excess emissions
• This creates a market
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Greenhouse Friendly
• Voluntary scheme• Run by DCC• National government
endorsed scheme• Additionality test
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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
• Only forestry can be counted as an offset• Tax incentives to establish sinks• More favourable model to permanent plantings• Less favourable for harvesting• 130 year permanence• No accreditations• NCAS is the only approved
estimation/methodology
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Arnie Sells the Hummer SUV
California – the first US state to impose a cap on expulsion of carbon dioxide and other gases
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PAY AS YOU GROW
• Existing projects
• Landholder plants trees
• Carbon rights transferred and periodic change in carbon stocks credited
• No carbon liability
• Offset matches emission event
• Regular payments over time on actual market values each year
Creating carbon credits from forests
PAY AS YOU SOW
• Additional/new projects
• Landholders paid for trees to be planted in exchange for carbon rights
• Carbon offset based on sequestered carbon
• Emissions event does not match sequestration event
• Price-stable
• Paid money up front
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Expression of Interest
EligibilityTest
PreliminaryOffer
Request formore information
Ineligibleletter
Ineligible
Eligible
TitleSearch
Carbon modellingplot file
Fileclosed
Declined Accepted
SiteAssessment
Eligible
Ineligible
Project Plan
Site historyMaps, size and location, risk assessment,
GPS, species, habitat hectares, title search
CalculationMethod
Signing and verificationby landholder
Eligible
Ineligible
Signed
FileClosed
Declined
Steps to Apply for Landholders
Access and Landholder input
Landholder actions
CarbonSMART actions
Legend
Clarification needed
Registered in Landcare CarbonSMART NSW Pool
Landholder receives payment for carbon in June
each year
Draft CSR/ROU)
RegisterCSR/ROU
What it involves for landholders
• Submit an Expression of Interest
• Agreements registered on title:
– Carbon Sequestration Rights
– Restriction on Use
• Allow access for initial site assessment, and later for ongoing monitoring
• Report depletion events
• Submit an annual performance statement
• Two step landholder process
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Basic agreement framework
Accreditation
Purchasers
Permits
Credits
Scheme Admin
Restriction on Use
Restriction on UseRegistered on title
Last resort option to maintain carbon on site
Landholder and CarbonSMART responsible
Does not exclude grazing or other uses
CarbonSMART
LandholderCarbon Sequestration Rights Deed
Carbon Sequestration Rights AgreementRegistered on title
Transfers interest of carbon rights to CarbonSMART
CarbonSMART can then create credits or permits
Not an interest in land
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Lower Value $ Higher Value $ Highest Value $
Voluntary scheme or
project offsetting
Retail Scheme with Govt or third party
endorsement
Domestic Compliance
Regime
EU/Kyoto Compliance
Regime
Voluntary Purchaser
Compliance Purchaser
Compliance Purchaser
Contractual Carbon
Sequestration commodity
Statutory Sequestration
Carbon commodity
International Carbon
Sequestration commodity
Carbon Property Right(legal basis for carbon commodities)
No Underlying Property Right
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Our Partners
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Partners in
PwC and URS pro bono partners for compliance, auditing and verification.
Rural Solutions SA Assessment Team and Advisory
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Foresty Carbon Sequestration Potential
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50
100
150
200
250
300
0 25 50 75 100
Years from planting (Tube stock planted at 1,000 stems per hectare)
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Wagga Wagga (river flats)Tumut (slopes)Tumut (flats)TemoraNarranderaWagga Wagga (away from river plain)Henty
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Emerging trends
• Large capacity for soil carbon sequestration• High variability – soils aint soils• High volatility and strict management• CSIRO reports more input requirements of P, K and S
to a greater value ($200) than the carbon value through sequestration ($44)
• Methane controls through grazing, vaccines and feed• Nitrous inhibitor application, stand off pads and herd
homes• Biochar/agrichar – all carbon, no credit• Algae production• Measurement tools such as
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Contact Details
Matthew Reddy
Landcare CarbonSMART
Landcare Australia Limited
Level 9, 24 Collins Street
Melbourne 3000
Website: www.carbonsmart.com.au
Email: [email protected]
Sydney Office 02 9412 1040
Melbourne Office 03 9650 3555
Rural Solutions 08