The Carbon Farming Initiative: A proposed common practice framework for assessing additionality
by
 
WOODHAM Felicity

Title
The Carbon Farming Initiative: A proposed common practice framework for assessing additionality

Series
Technical Reports

Series Issue
12.02

Publication Date
15/08/2012

Description
Like all carbon offset schemes, the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) must meet internationally recognised offset integrity standards, including the requirement of additionality, to ensure that all credits are genuine and competitive on domestic and international carbon markets. A common practice assessment is used to meet the additionality standard for the CFI. Common practice tests measure the extent to which an abatement activity has already occurred in a relevant 'comparison group'. If an activity is already common practice across similar operations then it can be assumed that barriers (financial, social or technical) to its adoption have been overcome without the additional enabling policy mechanism provided by the CFI and is, therefore, not additional. In the past, some other offset schemes that have used common practice tests for additionality have stipulated thresholds for what constitutes common practice without much empirical analysis. This paper proposes a framework for the common practice test based on lessons learned from other carbon offset schemes, academic literature and the results of mathematical analyses. This proposed framework provides the CFI with a cutting-edge, streamlined approach to assessing additionality that minimises transaction costs, while ensuring that CFI credits stand up to international scrutiny

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Resource URL
1027423

Publisher
ABARES : Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences : Department of Agriculture

Author
WOODHAM Felicity
 
SOUTHWELL Darren
 
BRUCE Sarah
 
BARNES Belinda Dr
 
APPELTON Helen
 
RICKARDS Jasmine
 
WALCOTT Jim Dr
 
HUG Beau
 
WHITTLE Linden
 
AHAMMAD Helal

Right Management
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Other constraints: All material in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, save for content supplied by third parties, logos and the Commonwealth Coat of Arms
 
Other constraints: This publication (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as: Woodhams F, Southwell D, Barnes B, Bruce S, Appleton H, Rickards J, Walcott J, Hug B, Whittle L and Ahammad H 2012, The Carbon Farming Initiative: A proposed common practice framework for assessing additionality (Technical report 12.02), ABARES technical report 12.2, Canberra, August. CC BY 3.0

Identifier
ISBN 978-1-74323-026-8
 
ISSN 1447-3666

Asset Name
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