Bill
Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Bill 2014
passed, as at 2014-11-25. Environment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Environment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-06-18
- second reading — 2014-06-18
- second reading — 2014-06-25
- second reading — 2014-06-25
- third reading — 2014-06-25
- introduced — 2014-06-26
- second reading — 2014-06-26
- second reading — 2014-10-30
- committee — 2014-10-30
- third reading — 2014-10-30
- third reading — 2014-10-30
- other — 2014-11-24
- passed — 2014-11-24
- royal assent — 2014-11-25
Divisions
- Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Bill 2014 - Second Reading - End debate on whether to criticise the Government's climate change policies — 2014-06-25, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 81, noes 56
- Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Criticise the Government's climate change policies — 2014-06-25, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 57, noes 81
- Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Bill 2014 — Second Reading — Read a second time — 2014-06-25, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 82, noes 56
- Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Bill 2014 - Third Reading - Suspend standing orders so as to move third reading motion — 2014-06-25, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 81, noes 57
- Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Bill 2014 - Third Reading - Pass the bill — 2014-06-25, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 82, noes 56
- The majority disagreed with Labor Senator [Lisa Singh](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/tasmania/lisa_singh)'s [statement](http://www.openaustralia.org/senate/?gid=2014-10-30.161.20) that: * the [Abbott](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/warringah/tony_abbott) Government's actions have damaged Australia's international reputation on [climate change](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change) * an [emissions trading scheme](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading) should be created * the impact of bill on the [Carbon Farming Initiative](http://www.daff.gov.au/climatechange/cfi) should be examined * the Government has not made a "robust and defensible assurance" about how the changes in this bill can achieve [Australia's emissions reduction target](http://www.climatechange.gov.au/climate-change/greenhouse-gas-measurement-and-reporting/australias-emissions-projections/australias). ###Main idea of the bill The bill creates an Emissions Reduction Fund so the Government can buy domestic [greenhouse gas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas) emissions reductions and [offsets](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset) by [reverse auction](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_auction). It also makes some changes to the [Carbon Farming Initiative](http://www.daff.gov.au/climatechange/cfi), like introducing a 25-year-long option for [carbon sequestration](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration) projects (right now all projects have to run for 100 years). ###Carbon Farming Initiative The Carbon Farming Initiative lets farmers and land managers earn [carbon credits](http://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/ANREU/Concise-description-of-units/Australian-carbon-credit-units/Pages/default.aspx) by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and [storing carbon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration) in vegetation and soils by changing their agricultural and land management practices. ###Background to the bill The Emissions R — 2014-10-30, Senate: negative, ayes 27, noes 34
- Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Criticise the Direct Action policy — 2014-10-30, Senate: negative, ayes 27, noes 34
- Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea — 2014-10-30, Senate: affirmative, ayes 32, noes 29
- The majority agreed to an [amendment](http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;db=CHAMBER;id=chamber%2Fhansards%2Fe89a1618-fea8-466d-ab43-821cf296f483%2F0222;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansards%2Fe89a1618-fea8-466d-ab43-821cf296f483%2F0000%22) that either the [Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee](http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1415a/15bd023) (created by this bill) or the [Department of the Environment](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_the_Environment_%28Australia%29) should publish a draft of a [methodology determination](http://www.climatechange.gov.au/reducing-carbon/carbon-farming-initiative/methodologies) and give the public at least two weeks to make submissions on that draft. Currently, the public have at least forty days to make submissions. ###Methodology determinations Methodology determinations are detailed rules that farmers and land managers must follow to earn [carbon credits](http://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/ANREU/Concise-description-of-units/Australian-carbon-credit-units/Pages/default.aspx) for particular carbon reduction activities under the [Carbon Farming Initiative](http://www.daff.gov.au/climatechange/cfi). ###Carbon Farming Initiative The [Carbon Farming Initiative](http://www.daff.gov.au/climatechange/cfi) lets farmers and land managers earn [carbon credits](http://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/ANREU/Concise-description-of-units/Australian-carbon-credit-units/Pages/default.aspx) by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and [storing carbon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration) in vegetation and soils by changing their agricultural and land management practices. ###Background to the bill The Emissions Reduction Fund is a key part of the Coalition Government's [Direct Action policy](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-20/coalition-climate-change-direct-action-policy-explained/5067188), which was an [election commitment](https://www.liberal.org.au/our-plan/envir — 2014-10-30, Senate: affirmative, ayes 34, noes 27
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