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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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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
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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
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ISBN 978-1-74323-026-8

ISSN 1447-3666
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