Standard 6: Internationally consistent – Current definition: Methodologies must ‘be consistent with (not necessarily the same as)’ the system that Australia users to report to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This system is called the National Greenhouse Accounts.
Questions arising from the current definition of Internationally Consistent:
1. Has the bias in the National Greenhouse Accounting methodology against soil carbon sequestration been rectified or will Australian farmers be disadvantaged by the fact that the soil carbon models were populated with data that exclusively reflected emissions only.[1]
2. How widespread is the knowledge of this situation among scientists? (A member of the DOIC described the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory as ‘world’s best practice’.)
Recommendations
Carbon Farmers of Australia recommend that the issue of Internationally consistent be considered in the light of the following Principles:
Principle 1. Australia can lead in generating a more appropriate international platform farm-based offsets.
[1] “The main purpose of this program is to improve the accuracy of carbon dioxide emission values from soil carbon following land use and land use change (LULUC) in the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (NGGI) for the 1990 baseline year.” Skjemstad, J. and Spouncer, L., Integrated Soils Modelling for the National Carbon Accounting System (National Carbon Accounting System technical report; no. 36) 2003
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