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Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration Using Measurement and Models) Methodology Determination 2021
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Part 5—Reporting, record-keeping, notification and monitoring requirements
Division 1—Offsets report requirements
31 Operation of this Division
32 Information that must be included in offsets reports
Division 2—Notification requirements
33 Operation of this Division
34 Notification requirements
Division 3—Record‑keeping requirements
35 Operation of this Division
36 Record‑keeping requirements
Division 4—Monitoring requirements
37 Operation of this Division
38 Monitoring requirements
39 Project monitoring—livestock
40 Project monitoring—assumed baseline for livestock
41 Project monitoring—land management strategy
42 Consequences of not meeting requirement to monitor certain parameters
Part 6—Partial reporting
43 Partial reporting
Part 7—Calculation of Emissions
44 Simplified outline of this Part
45 Definitions
46 Application of this Part to CEAs and emissions accounting areas in a project area
Division 2—Calculating average annual baseline emissions for a project area
47 Average annual baseline emissions for a project area
48 Livestock emissions—if historical stock rate data is known
49 Livestock emissions—if historical stock rate data is not known
50 Synthetic fertiliser emissions
51 Lime emissions
52 Residue, tillage and soil landscape modification emissions
53 Irrigation energy emissions
Division 3—Calculating average annual project emissions for a project area
54 Average annual project emissions for a project area
55 Livestock emissions
56 Synthetic fertiliser emissions
57 Lime emissions
58 Residue, tillage and soil landscape modification emissions
Division 4—Calculating change in emissions
60 Change in project emissions from baseline in a reporting period
Schedule 1—Measurement-only approach to estimating soil organic carbon sequestration
Division 2—Operation of a soil carbon project using a measurement-only approach under this Schedule
4 Steps involved in accounting for a soil carbon project
5 Carbon estimation areas (CEAs), exclusion areas and emissions accounting areas
6 Sampling design
7 Sampling
8 Sample analysis
9 Working out the change in soil organic carbon stock for a CEA
10 Working out the soil organic carbon stock for a CEA and sampling variance
Subdivision 1—Working out the soil organic carbon stock in a sample using an equivalent soil mass for a CEA
11 Steps for working out the soil organic carbon stock in a sample
12 Determining Equivalent Soil Mass (ESM) from the soil masses derived during the baseline sampling round
13 Working out the soil organic carbon stock in each layer
Subdivision 2—Working out the soil organic carbon stock and variance for a CEA where both compositing of cores across strata and equal area stratification are used
14 Application of this Subdivision
15 Mean soil organic carbon stock in a CEA
16 Sampling variance of the mean soil organic carbon stock within a CEA
17 Total soil organic carbon stock for a CEA
18 Sampling variance of the total soil organic carbon stock for a CEA
Subdivision 3—Working out the soil organic carbon stock and sampling variance for a CEA in all circumstances other than when compositing of cores is across equal area strata
19 Application of this Subdivision
20 Mean soil organic carbon stock in a stratum
21 Sampling variance of the mean soil organic carbon stock within a stratum
22 Mean soil organic carbon stock in a CEA
23 Sampling variance of the mean soil organic carbon stock within a CEA
24 Total soil organic carbon stock for a CEA
25 Sampling variance of the soil organic carbon stock for a CEA
26 Working out the creditable change in soil organic carbon stock in a CEA for a reporting period
27 Change in carbon stock between sampling rounds
28 Standard error for change in soil organic carbon stock
29 Degrees of freedom for a CEA between sample rounds
30 Degrees of freedom associated with a sampling round (View image in the official source) for a CEA where composite samples were collected across equal area strata
32 Change in soil organic carbon stock in the CEA with a specified probability of exceedance for a reporting period
Schedule 2—Hybrid approach to estimating soil organic carbon sequestration
Division 2—Operation of a soil carbon project under this Schedule
Subdivision 1—Operation of Division
4 Operation of a soil carbon project
Subdivision 2—Project accounting
5 Steps involved in accounting for a soil carbon project
6 Carbon estimation areas (CEAs), exclusion areas and emissions accounting areas
7 Sampling design
8 Sampling
9 Sample analysis
10 Working out the change in soil organic carbon stock for a CEA
Subdivision 1—Area, soil mass and estimation approaches for the calculation of soil organic carbon stock and sampling variance for a CEA
11 Working out the soil organic carbon stock for a CEA
12 Working out the sampling variance of soil organic carbon stock for a CEA
13 Determining Equivalent Soil Mass (ESM) from the sampled soil masses derived during the baseline sampling round
14 Approaches for estimating mean soil organic carbon stock and its sampling variance and degrees of freedom in a CEA
Subdivision 2—Measurement-based soil organic carbon stock estimation and its sampling variance for the CEA for each estimation event
15 Working out the soil organic carbon stock of each sample in each layer
16 Mean soil organic carbon stock in a stratum
17 Area-weighted mean soil organic carbon stock in a CEA
18 Sampling variance of the mean soil organic carbon stock within a stratum
19 Sampling variance of the mean soil organic carbon stock within a CEA
20 Degrees of freedom for the sampling variance of the mean soil organic carbon stock within a CEA
Subdivision 3—Model-only soil organic carbon stock estimation and its sampling variance for the CEA for each estimation event
21 Working out the modelled soil organic carbon stock in each layer of each stratum
22 Mean modelled soil organic carbon stock in a CEA
23 Extrapolated bias-adjustment of the modelled soil organic carbon stock within a CEA
24 Extrapolated estimate of the sampling variance of mean carbon stocks in the CEA
25 Degrees of freedom for the sampling variance of the mean soil organic carbon stock within a CEA
Subdivision 4—Model-assisted soil organic carbon stock estimation and its sampling variance in the CEA for each estimation event
26 Application of this subdivision
27 Working out the modelled soil organic carbon stock in each layer of each stratum
28 Mean modelled soil organic carbon stock in a CEA
29 Working out the modelled soil organic carbon stock for each model-validation site
30 Mean modelled soil organic carbon stock for each model-validation site in a stratum
31 Working out the soil organic carbon stock of each model-validation site in each layer
32 Mean soil organic carbon stock in a stratum from model-validation samples
33 Area-weighted mean soil organic carbon stock in a CEA from model-validation samples
34 Variance of the mean soil organic carbon stock within a stratum from model-validation samples
35 Variance of the mean soil organic carbon stock within a CEA from model-validation samples
36 Sampling fraction in each stratum
37 Sampling density weighting in each stratum
38 Area-weighted mean of the modelled carbon stocks at sample sites
39 Regression coefficient for the modelled and sampled carbon stocks in the CEA
40 Regression estimate of carbon stocks in the CEA
41 Variance of the modelled soil organic carbon stock within a stratum
42 Covariance of the sampled and modelled soil organic carbon stocks in each stratum
43 Regression estimate of sampling variance of mean carbon stocks within a stratum
44 Regression estimate of sampling variance of mean carbon stocks in the CEA
45 Degrees of freedom for the regression estimate of sampling variance of mean carbon stocks in the CEA
46 Bias of the carbon stock estimation in the CEA
47 Correlation of the sampled and modelled soil organic carbon stocks for the CEA
48 Fraction of sampling variance in the CEA
49 Working out the creditable change in soil organic carbon stock in a CEA for a reporting period
50 Change in carbon stock between estimation events
51 Standard error for change in soil organic carbon stock
52 Degrees of freedom for a CEA between estimation events
53 Change in soil organic carbon stock in the CEA with a specified probability of exceedance for a reporting period
Part 1—Preliminary
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