Carbon farming perceptions among landholders and local governments of Southern Queensland
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Cooperative models to encourage smaller producers to enter the carbon market
About the theme
Theme two of the Carbon Initiative Program aims to help understand whether it is practicable and economically viable to establish a carbon farming and carbon markets engagement scheme based on producers:
- Pooling soil carbon and associated co-benefits contributions as part of a regional cooperative arrangement and selling them through the voluntary market
- Being able to effectively and rigorously demonstrate they are actively reducing carbon emissions and achieving co-benefits through their carbon farming practices
- Receiving a premium payment based on their combined carbon sequestration and co-benefits contribution.
Projects include:
- Carbon farming perceptions among landholders and local governments of Southern Queensland
- Collaborative carbon farming for soil management
- Evaluation of cooperative models for carbon pooling through behavioural economics.
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Project summary: Carbon farming perceptions in Southern Queensland
This project aims to understand the needs and concerns of Southern Queensland farmers towards carbon farming and carbon markets.
Publication
Project summary: Collaborative carbon farming for soil management
The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential for landholder collaboration to assist the adoption of carbon farming in Australia, while also taking account of the potential risks, barriers, and downsides of collaborative approaches.
Publication
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