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A growing chorus of voices are calling on the Federal Government to include avoided deforestation in its proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
This would reward landholders for keeping their regrowth, by setting a price for the carbon stored in it.
A Far North Queensland group is in talks with Canberra about how to make it work.
Penny van Oosterzee from the Degree-Celsius joint venture says they’ve developed a model which could be used.
“The Government is looking closely at our methodology for regional aggregation including, avoided deforestation. The opposition is very keen on our model as well because it is a positive, a way of moving forward and including rural land use instead of excluding rural land use.”
Queensland National Party Senator Ron Boswell says it sounds like a good idea, but says he isn’t supporting the current emissions trading scheme.
“You couldn’t deny that would be beneficial to farmers, it’s a great idea, but there’s thousands of these ideas going around, how to get farmers some benefits out of the ETS (Emission Trading Scheme),” he says.
“But the real thing is that the ETS is so bad, it’s so reprehensible, it’s so destroying, that I don’t think you can touch it.”
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