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In this section you will find links to resources and tools available from projects and programs managed by Horticulture Australia Limited. These are provided to the public free of charge.
Horticulture Carbon Footprinting Tools
Horticulture Carbon Info
Banana Carbon Info
Vegetable Carbon Footprinting Tool – coming soon!
FarmGAS Calculator
The Australian Farm Institute has recently (Sept 2009) launched the FarmGAS Calculator. The Calculator is an online application which enables farmers to model both the financial and greenhouse gas outputs of farm activities and the implications of changes in enterprises. The FarmGAS Calculator will be available free online for anyone to access, through the Australian Farm Institute’s website.
The FarmGas Calculator is available here from AFI.
It has a Horticulture capability, but only for Perennial Horticulture - "This calculator is suitable for perennial horticultural crops, such as stone and pome fruit trees. Horticultural enterprises are dealt with very simply under the current NGA methodologies. The only determinant of GHG emissions is the quantity of nitrogen (in fertiliser) applied per hectare per annum."
CCRSPI Fact Sheets
CCRSPI has developed a number of fact sheets with primary industries, including:
“Horticulture and Climate Change Brochure”
“Life Cycle Assessments: A useful tool for Australian agriculture"
“Climate change update: On-farm bioenergy in the pork industry”
Across-Horticulture Climate Project (AH06019) – Australian horticulture's response to climate change and climate variability
Project reports:
Vegetable Climate Project (VG05051) - Scoping study into climate change and climate variability for the vegetable industry for the vegetable industry
- Project Final Report April 2006 – “Scoping Study - Climate Change and Climate Variability - Risks and Opportunities for Horticulture”
Banana Climate Project (BA08014) – Understanding and identifying the threats and opportunities posed by climate change for the banana industry
Project Final Report March 2009 - “Understanding and identifying the threats and opportunities posed by climate change for the banana industry (BA08014)”
Vegetable Industry Carbon Footprint Scoping Study - Discussion Papers and Workshop (VG08107)
The vegetable industry carbon foot printing discussion papers, released in October 2008, answered the below questions for industry:
1. What is a carbon footprint?
2. How will carbon footprinting address the issues of reduction, mitigation, emissions trading and marketing?
3. What carbon footprinting tools are currently available?
4. Is there a preliminary estimation of the carbon footprint of the Australian vegetable industry?
5. Who will use the vegetable carbon tool?
6. What are the options for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions for the Australian vegetable industry?
Click here for a copy of the October 2008 Vegetable Carbon Workshop Notes.
Growcom Climate Fact Sheets
Growcom have developed a number of fact sheets on the topics of climate change, including:
- Fact sheet #1: Climate change and horticulture
- Fact sheet #2: Carbon footprinting
- Fact sheet #3: Horticulture and the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Fact sheet #4: Horticulture and the carbon market
- Fact sheet #5: Adapting horticulture to climate change
These fact sheets are available via the Growcom website at http://www.growcom.com.au/home/inner.asp?pageID=67
HAL Climate Change Sessions
Across-Industry Committee Climate/Carbon Session – March 2009
To increase understanding and identify options for future investment in climate and carbon management across the horticulture industry in Australia, a Climate/Carbon Session was held with the across-industry committee in March 2009.
Presentations were made to the Industry Management Committee (IMC), which advises Horticulture Australia Limited (HAL) on across industry investment, by three leaders of climate change research in agriculture, including: Climate Change Research Strategy for Primary Industries (CCRSPI) Secretariat, Dr Owen Cameron; Senior Principal Horticulturalist, Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries Peter Deuter; and Manger of the Managing Climate Variability Program, Colin Creighton.
- Presentation 1: Meeting the Climate Change Challenge for Horticulture - National climate policy & the Climate Change Research Strategy for Primary Industries (CCRSPI) - Owen Cameron
- Presentation 2: Managing Climate Variability Program (MCVP) and horticulture - Colin Creighton
- Presentation 3: The Horticulture Climate Change Action Plan (HCCAP) - Peter Deuter
- Presentation 4: Current and proposed climate change projects within horticulture - Alison Turnbull
Notes from the workshop are available here.
HAL Industry Forum Climate Session – 20 November 2008
A session was held with industry members at the HAL Industry Forum in Sydney on 20th November 2008, which included the below presentations:
Carbon Dictionary
The Carbon Edge Program has developed the latest, up to date dictionary on carbon terms currently available via their website on www.carbonedge.com.au or click here for the direct link:
http://www.carbonedge.com.au/docs/CarbonEdge-Dictionary.pdf
Outlook March 2009 Reports
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