The earliest breakthrough in soil carbon trading has occurred in regional Australia. Louisa Kiely from Carbon Farmers of Australia explains how they work.

1. Regional Carbon Trading Model A Voluntary System Louisa Kiely Carbon Farmers of Australia

2. Carbon Farming Expo & Conference Mudgee 17-18 November 2007

3. Soil Carbon On The National Agenda “ I am hearing more and more about the possible potential of enhancing the carbon stored in our soils… [The Government will] investigate how better soil management can be part of Australia’s response to climate change.” PM Kevin Rudd 4 March 2008

4. UN FAO calls for Soil Carbon Credits "It is essential to … increase the resilience of present food production systems ... We urge governments to create opportunities to enable the world's smallholder farmers …. to participate in , and benefit from financial mechanisms and investment flows to support climate change adaptation, mitigation and technology development…” 181 countries The High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy, convened by UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), 3-5 June, 2008

5. “ Soil Carbon must be in!” “ Australia is well positioned to further increase carbon dioxide removal by soil, due to the sheer size of its land mass and the ability of its farming sector to adopt new management practices . Professor Ross Garnaut FINAL REPORT

6. “ Soil Carbon - DON’T WAIT!” “ The mitigation gains are potentially so large that it is important for Australia to commence work on program design and implementation even before the issues of coverage , national and international, are fully resolved.” Professor Ross Garnaut FINAL REPORT

7. STOP PRESS TIM GETS IT! "Atmospheric Cleansing” "What plants do is pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sequester that carbon dioxide in measurable amounts in the biosphere.”

8. “ The technologies then to do that are very straight forward… Holistic management, for example, is practised over about 10 million acres globally… demonstrably increased carbon content in soils by up to three percent. And they give you better productivity, better soil moisture retention, better biodiversity protection, and these approaches are not expensive. " “ Were we able to increase carbon content of soils in the world’s rangelands by a mere two percent we could draw down hundreds of gigatonnes of carbon dioxide to sequester in those rangelands.” “ Atmospheric Cleansing”

9. “ In my view, the global carbon trading scheme is absolutely necessary in order to deal with this crisis.” Carbon Trading “Absolutely Necessary”

10. UN Food & Agriculture Organisation Conservation Agriculture Carbon Offset Consultation Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 28-30 October, 2008 Mexico Columbia Brazil India Australia Ontario Manitoba Denmark British Columbia China America South Africa Germany Alberta Saskatchewan

11. Conservation Agriculture Carbon Offset Consultation Official Communique

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16. SOIL’S UNIQUE ROLE To Hold the Line? To Aborb the Legacy Load.

18. If we stopped emitting CO2 today?

19. “ Legacy Load” of CO2

21. Neither “ Clean Coal” Nor Nuclear Power Nor Solar Energy Nor Wind Turbines Nor Lightbulbs can remove the “ Legacy Load” of CO2.

22. PHOTOSYNTHESIS CAPACITY DEPLOYMENT CRITICAL MASS ONLY AT MASSIVE AT FULL AND SIGNIFICANT CAN TACKLE THE LEGACY LOAD

23. 7 planets covered in forest Would sequester the CO2 already in the atmosphere

26. Increase Soil Carbon Improved Soil Structure Better Water Use Reduced Salination Soil Fertility Biodiversity Healthy Profit Less Erosion The Benefits of Soil Carbon Credits Healthy ecology Soil Carbon Credits Healthy Farm Families Stronger Rural Communities

32. Regional Business Model for Carbon Trading Community Wind Farms Biofuels Big Emitters Recycled Biomass Community Education/ Involvement Employment Sustainable Farming Restored Farm Ecology

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