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DRAFT South West Regional NRM Strategy – Ancillary Document can be used for medium term regional NRM land use planning. This stream will be administered by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. For more information on the Regional NRM Planning for Climate Change Fund, please subscribe to the Clean Energy Enviro News. 5. Carbon Farming Skills: The ongoing Carbon Farming Skills initiative will ensure that landholders have access to credible, high quality advice and carbon services. This measure will fund: development of a new nationally accredited qualification for carbon service providers accreditation of carbon brokers and aggregators operating in the Carbon Farming Initiative; and information workshops for farm extension officers, catchment authorities and rural service providers about carbon farming. The program, with funding of $4 million over five years, will commence in July 2012. Carbon Farming Skills will be administered by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. You can register your interest in receiving email updates about the Carbon Farming Skills and the other land sector measures by emailing the Carbon Farming Administrator - cfi@climatechange.gov.au. 6. The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) allows farmers and land managers to earn carbon credits by storing carbon or reducing greenhouse gas emissions on the land. These credits can then be sold to people and businesses wishing to offset their emissions. http://www.climatechange.gov.au/cfi The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) is an Australian Government scheme to help farmers, forest growers and land managers earn income from reducing emissions like nitrous oxide and methane through changes to agricultural and land management practices. http://www.daff.gov.au/climatechange/cfi The initiative will achieve this by: establishing a carbon crediting scheme - These rule and regulations will be the basis for the carbon crediting scheme and developing on farm methodologies for emissions offset activities. Landholders undertaking activities that conform to an approved methodology will generate carbon credits. These carbon credits could then be sold on domestic or international carbon markets. Further information on these rules is available from the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and the CFI brochure. developing methodologies for offset projects - Landholders and Indigenous Land Managers undertaking projects to credit offsets will need to use an approved methodology in order to participate in the carbon offset scheme. All offset methodologies are assessed by the Domestic Offsets Integrity Committee (DOIC), an independent committee of experts, to ensure they lead to real and measurable emissions reductions. The Committee brings a range of expertise to these assessments, including science, technology, legal, methodology development and greenhouse gas measurement approaches. A list of proposed methodologies and further information on how to submit comments are available on the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency website. The Government is continuing to work with stakeholders to develop further methodologies for submission to the DOIC. providing information and tools to help farmers and land managers benefit from carbon markets investing in a CFI Communications Program - The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) Communications Program will invest $4 million from 2011–12 to 2013-14 to provide farmers, land managers and their key influencers with credible, clear and consistent information on the CFI. Part of the program will provide targeted grants to each of the 56 Natural Resource Management (NRM) regions. This will see Regional Landcare Facilitators (RLFs) work closely with farmers, Indigenous Australians and other land managers to identify how they can participate in and benefit from the opportunities created by the CFI and carbon farming. RLFs participated in a national forum about the CFI in Canberra on 8 and 9 March 2011. They have also attended state and 210
DRAFT South West Regional NRM Strategy – Ancillary Document territory based workshops delivered by the Australian Government and the University of Melbourne. It is expected that RLFs will begin delivering information sessions to farmers and land managers from December 2011. investing in a Biochar Capacity Building Program The implementation of the scheme will be undertaken jointly by DAFF and the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. 7.5 Changes in approaches to prioritizing assets and threats INFFER has been developed as a means to prioritize assets for intervention on the basis of (mainly) economic information (see www.inffer.org for a complete description and a brad range of useful publications). There have been recent suggestions that the so-called condition-based approach might be more effective (Curtis and Lefroy 2010), but this framework requires further development. Yet other researchers are developing methods based on those utilised in the health sector to prioritize investment into priority health issues (Evans et al 2011) and SWCC should research these carefully before going ahead with any system. 7.6 The emergence of citizen science Citizen Science is gaining in popularity as a method of research, and for many good reasons (Cooper et al 2007). As the term suggests, Citizen Science involves the participation of the wider community (particularly non-scientists) in scientific projects. Interestingly, it is nothing new – naturalists were people that provided significant inputs to the world of science, including Aristotle, John James Audubon, Charles Darwin, Joseph Banks, Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould, Henry David Thoreau, Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Linnaeus, Georges Cuvier and David Suzuki. Proponents of Citizen Science, when listing its benefits, usually begin with how it enables extensive data collection. Indeed, this benefit is considerable; but it is the interaction between scientists and the community, and the ability for projects to inform both groups, that are perhaps the most exciting outcomes of this approach. Further, new ways to conduct and augment Citizen Science projects are being developed that are enhancing the potential of this research methodology. Developing our scientific understanding of the natural world often requires a great deal of data collection, but time and resource availability limit scientists' ability to collect that data. One solution to this problem is to have more people collecting data, and this is where Citizen Scientists can assist. Data can be collected by the community and submitted via online survey instruments, or materials can be collected and delivered to scientists. Scientists benefit from data collected over a large area, or over a long period of time. Data and materials can also be collected from areas that are normally difficult to access, such as private property. Additional benefits: There are many other benefits of Citizen Science. By participating in a project, community members get a chance to inform scientists, and, in the process, learn more about their environment. Information gained through Citizen Science projects can change public perceptions of the natural world, promote interaction with nature, and engage the community in the management of natural resources. These natural advantages of a Citizen Science program can be augmented by additional education and research strategies: The inclusion of educational materials for school-based projects, e.g. exercises developed for Barbara Hardy Institute Citizen Science projects at the University of South Australia are introducing children to animal classification, wildlife observation, collecting data and collating results http://www.unisa.edu.au/barbarahardy/research/citizen-science.asp . 211
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