CARBON News Updates

Indigenous Australians Fight Climate Change with Fire Solutions Journal 11 2011

Indigenous Fire Skills blaze an eco-friendly trail. Read full article by Joe Morrison in Canberra Times.

Carbon Credit plan fires burning ambitions. Read full article on ABC on line

Carbon Farming Initiatives give Indigenous Australia major opportunities. Read full article in NewsMaker.

Hear Joe Morrison's interview about the Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund and its opportunities and risks for Indigenous communities.

Prosperous Sustainable Australia

The Government's plan for a prosperous, sustainable Australia is detailed in a new website.

See how the Household Assistance Package effects you with the Household Assistance Estimator.

Read about NAILSMA's Carbon Project that aims to establish landscape-scale emissions abatement projects in northern Australia.

Canberra Times 11 July 2011

Solar industry set to shine under package

.......NAILSMA chief executive Joe Morrison welcomed a $22 million carbon farming fund for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. He said it recognised the work indigenous communities were doing to cut carbon emissions through land mangement across the seasonally fire-prone Top End.

''It's a good start, and opens the way for Aboriginal communities to earn new income from carbon offsets,''  he said.

  Read full article.

Book Launch - April 2010

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Joe Morrison NAILSMA CEO, Ms Marion Scrymgour MLA, Peter Whitehead (Editor), Jeremy Russell-Smith (Editor) and Robbie Dalton NLC.

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Leading experts appointed to Land Sector Carbon Board

The Government announced the establishment of the independent Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Board.  Read media release.

Ngaliyindi Fire Workshop Report Released

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A report entitled Managing Fire and Measuring Progress in the Arafura Swamp Region

Applying Adaptive Fire Management to Maintain and Enhance Natural, Cultural and Social Values Workshop has just been release by NAILSMA after a very successful workshop held at the Ngaliyindi Outstation in Arnhem Land in September 2010.

The workshop focused particularly on:

  • fire management and related issues (fire-sensitive biota, traditional ecological knowledge);
  • reaching better understanding for the need to implement strategic fire management;
  • economic opportunities for achieving land management outcomes; and
  • useful ways for monitoring progress especially with respect to core cultural, social and biodiversity values.
Click on image above to download your copy.

 

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Read the DCCEE report just released!

Click on image above to download your copy.

Book Launch - April 2010

Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas: Rekindling the Wurrk Tradition.
A 2009 CSIRO publication edited by Jeremy Russell-Smith, Peter Whitehead and Peter Cooke. In regards to the content Joe Morrison NAILSMA CEO states that: 'the successful world first initiative shows the inherent commitment by Indigenous land managers to the protection and management of their natural and cultural assets.' A great read! [pdf 353.5 kb]


After Copenhagen

Post Copenhagen
Joe Morrison discusses outcomes and thoughts post the Copenhagen Climate Change meeting 2009. [pdf 116.4 kb]