Improved Forestry Management and avoided emissions from logging

We calculate the emissions that would result from business-as-usual logging events and then substitute the equivalent carbon offsets for sale in the international and domestic markets.
Income from the sales of these credits is passed to the landowner. Where this income is equal to or greater than the value of the timber it is logical that the landowner will choose this option.
To date, Redd Forests has protected over 30,000 hectares of native forest using this methodology. This area generates over 160,000 credits per year.

Afforestation and Reforestation

We design projects for regenerating native forest on degraded or logged land that will earn Australian CFI* credits for the landowners once these projects are approved.
The  credits are calculated on the basis of carbon sequestrated by the growing forest.
The credits can be sold internationally or domestically and will be eligible as offsets under the Australian Government’s proposed Cutting Carbon Pollution legislation.

The CFI

*The Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Bill 2011 fulfils the Australian Government’s commitment to develop legislation to give farmers, forest growers and landholders access to domestic voluntary and international carbon markets. This will begin to unlock the abatement opportunities in the land sector which currently makes up 23 percent of Australia’s emissions.

This commitment is reflected in the objects of the bill.

The first objective in clause 3(2) is to help Australia meet its international obligations, under the United Nations Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases.

The second is to create incentives for people to undertake land sector abatement projects. The ability to generate saleable carbon credits provides an investment incentive, thereby helping to channel carbon finance into land sector abatement.

A further objective is to achieve carbon abatement in a manner that is consistent with the protection of Australia’s natural environment and improves resilience to the impacts of climate change. This recognises the important contribution that this scheme can make towards environmental objectives such as improving water quality, reducing salinity and erosion, protecting and promoting biodiversity, regenerating landscapes and improving the productivity of agricultural soils