Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011 and regulations, particularly provisions relevant to project planning and implementation, and including relevant eligible activities on the positive list any regulatory guidance included on the Clean Energy Regulator website for the relevant methodologies details of relevant approved CFI savanna burning, feral animal and rangelands methodologies including eligibility requirements, project area requirements, net abatement calculation requirements, monitoring, reporting and auditing requirements and further information sources dealing with multiple land interest holders (e.g. Indigenous groups, pastoralists and the Crown) carbon rights protocols for exclusive and non exclusive native title holders consent rights for native title, Crown land and mining leases funding arrangements for assisting Indigenous communities in establishing or participating in carbon farming projects sources of culturally relevant materials and verbal information history, cultural protocols and perspectives of indigenous stakeholders in the area current relationships between culturally diverse groups in the area current pricing and options for project resources, tools, equipment and contractors formats for organising and presenting financial, qualitative and quantitative information public liability and legal responsibilities personal and professional liability duty of care managing environmental risk workplace health and safety carbon accounting in the land sector, including: Australia's national carbon accounting framework need for consistency of abatement calculations under the CFI with methods in the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting determination and the National Inventory Report requirements for measuring emissions from land-based sources relevant to the methodologies For savannah burning methodologies detailed understanding about fire behaviour in the landscapes covered by the savanna burning methodology, including how to obtain and understand the fire history of the site, the effects of burning the site at various times of the year, the effects of burning the site’s various vegetation communities, the effects of burning the site at different times of the day how to plan and implement a large scale program of strategic fire management Geographic Information System operation, including how to operate the North Australian Fire Information website (www.firenorth.org.au) and experience in fire prevention, precautions, control and management in rural situations as applied in district Rural Fire services community building and coordination in the management of implementation of fire burning projects affecting nearby towns, part time farmers, conservationists and local authorities remote sensing mapping requirements including vegetation maps, monthly fire maps and seasonal fire maps vegetation classes, characteristic species and substrates geographic information systems (GIS) automated savannah burning methodology tool (once it has been developed in mid 2013) For feral animal methodologies aerial survey and data recording geographic information systems (GIS) relevant animal welfare standards feral animal population dynamics and ecology in the project area relevant licences, permits and legislation regarding feral animal control population dynamics and ecology for the relevant feral animals in the project area For rangelands methodologies, geographic information systems (GIS) |