Over the next three years, NAILSMA will be working, through our
partners (Kimberley Land Council, Northern Land Council,
Carpentaria Land Council Aboriginal Corporation and Balkanu Cape
York Development Corporation) to establish up to four new
landscape-scale emissions abatement projects in northern Australia.
The aim of this initiative is to examine prospective opportunities
in the emerging carbon and related markets, including carbon offset
arrangements under the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
and opportunities on the unregulated or voluntary market.
The four new savanna fire management projects are located in the
north Kimberley region of Western Australia, central Arnhem Land in
the NT, the Gulf of Carpentaria and western Cape York in
Queensland. (see map on right)
Funding
The Carbon Project is supported by NAILSMA, through funding from
the Australian Government’s Caring for our Country program as
well as various other government sources including CSIRO, Bushfires
NT and Tropical Savannas Co-operative Research Centre, and a number
of private sector sources.
