Carbon
A plantation can be harvested regularly and still absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the longer term.
Western Australia's new plantations on farms are absorbing around 750,000 tonnes of cabon dioxide (CO2) equivalents per year (the same as taking 180,000 cars off the road).
FPC's respected scientists have completed extensive sampling programs to develop the capacity for accurate measurement and estimation of timber and carbon resources in plantation forests.
Specialist methods and techniques have been developed by FPC's scientists for carbon sampling, including development of specalist equipment, for sampling roots and above-ground tree components.
Our forestry expertise has been successfully partnered with industry to tackle the challenges of climate change and greenhouse emissions. Some past examples of this include:
Kyoto protocol
The Australian Federal Government has ratified the Kyoto Protocol with the signing of documents at the Climate Change conference in Bali in December 2007.
Australia is currently playing a key role in the new round of international negotiations for a global climate agreement to take us beyond 2012, when the first round of carbon emissions targets under the Kyoto Protocol are due to expire.
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS)
The Australian Government is currently working towards the establishment of a national scheme. Designs for the scheme are currently being negotiated. It is likely that the proposed scheme will include a cap and trade clause which is internationally consistent.
Carbon Rights Act
The Carbon Rights Act 2003 establishes a statutory basis in Western Australia for the ownership and protection of carbon rights, in order to facilitate trading.
It enables a carbon right to be registered on the land title as a separate interest in the land. The Act also provides that a carbon right may be registered with the consent of all parties having an interest in the land.
