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Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Plantation Forestry) Methodology Determination 2022
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Explain section Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Duration
5 Definitions
6 Meaning of pre‑existing project and former determination
7 Factors and parameters from external sources
Part 2—Plantation forest projects and permanent planting projects
8 Plantation forest projects and permanent planting projects
Part 3—Project requirements
Division 3.1—General
9 Operation of this Part
Division 3.2—Information required in application
10 Information required in application
Division 3.3—Eligibility requirements
11 Certain forestry managed investment schemes excluded
12 Project must include project activity on eligible land
Division 3.4—Stratification
13 CEAs must be defined
14 Requirements for CEAs
15 Boundaries and mapping
16 No re-stratification unless permitted by this Division
17 Conversion of a remnant plantation B CEA to a permanent planting (environmental) CEA
18 Re-stratification following disturbance event
19 Re-stratification due to change in management regime
20 Re‑stratification to remove area that is no longer suitable for plantation growth
Division 3.5—Management regimes
Subdivision 3.5.1—General
21 Management actions and when they occur
22 Disturbance events and when they occur
23 Requirements for a forest management plan
24 Updating a forest management plan
25 Requirement to provide a forest management plan to the Regulator
26 The current management regime and the default management regime
27 Forest management plan for a re-stratified CEA
28 Assessing a proposed change to a management regime
Subdivision 3.5.2—Conversion CEAs
29 Additional requirements for a forest management plan for a conversion CEA
Subdivision 3.5.3—Continuing plantation CEAs
30 Additional requirements for a forest management plan for a continuing plantation CEA
Subdivision 3.5.4—Ex-plantation CEAs
31 Restrictions on management actions in ex-plantation CEAs—general
32 Management actions in remnant plantation B CEAs
33 Additional requirements for a forest management plan for an ex-plantation CEA—general
Next section 2 Commencement
Part Part 1 - Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Plantation Forestry) Methodology Determination 2022 - Preliminary | Zoe 34 Additional requirements for a forest management plan for remnant plantation B CEAs
Division 3.6—Newness and additionality
Part 4—Net abatement amount
36 Operation of this Part
37 Overview of gases accounted for in abatement calculations
Division 4.2—FullCAM Modelling
Subdivision 4.2.1—General
38 Modelling scenarios in FullCAM
39 Modelling project scenario
40 Modelling long-term project scenario
41 Modelling baseline scenario
Division 4.3—Calculations
Subdivision 4.3.1—Preliminary
Subdivision 4.3.2—Baseline net carbon stock
43 Baseline carbon stock and baseline emissions in a CEA
44 Baseline net carbon stock for a project area
Subdivision 4.3.3—Long-term net carbon stock
45 Predicted long-term carbon stock and project emissions in a CEA
46 Predicted long-term average net carbon stock or long-term project scenario net carbon stock for project area
Subdivision 4.3.4—Net carbon stock change in a reporting period
47 Calculating net carbon stock in a CEA at the end of reporting period
48 Net carbon stock at the end of reporting period for the project area
49 Deemed net carbon stock for a project area at the end of reporting period
50 Net carbon stock change for a project area in first reporting period under this determination
51 Net carbon stock change for a project area in later reporting periods
52 Net abatement amount for a project area
Subdivision 4.3.5—Calculation of the net abatement amount
53 Net abatement amount—general rule
54 Net abatement amount—where previous net abatement amount negative
Part 5—Reporting, record‑keeping and monitoring requirements
Division 5.1—Reporting requirements
55 Operation of this Division
56 Information required in offsets reports
Division 5.2—Record‑keeping requirements
57 Operation of this Division
58 Records relating to salvage harvesting
59 Records relating to monitoring of management actions, natural disturbances and forest development condition
60 Records relating to monitoring of management activities
Division 5.3—Monitoring requirements
61 Operation of this Division
62 Monitoring management actions
63 Monitoring natural disturbances
64 Monitoring forest development
Part 6—Dividing a plantation forest project
65 No division of carbon estimation area
Schedule 1—Establishing new plantation forests
Part 1—New plantation project activity and additional eligibility requirements
1 The new plantation project activity
2 Eligible land for new plantation project activity
3 Additional requirements for defining new plantation CEAs
Schedule 2—Converting an existing plantation forest from a short rotation to a long rotation
Part 1—Conversion project activity and additional eligibility requirements
1 Definitions for this Schedule
2 The conversion project activity
3 Eligible land for conversion project activity
4 Evidence required in application
5 Requirements for thinning or pruning
6 Requirements for UR species
7 Additional requirements for defining conversion CEAs
Part 3—Management regimes
8 The default baseline management regime (conversion CEA)
Schedule 3—Avoiding conversion of a plantation to non-forested land by continuing plantation project activity
1 The continuing plantation project activity
2 Eligible land for continuing plantation project activity
4 Non-continuation requirement
7 Additional requirements for defining continuing CEAs
Schedule 4—Transitioning to a permanent planting
1 The permanent planting project activity
2 Eligible land for permanent planting project activity
4 Non-continuation requirements
7 Additional requirements for defining ex-plantation CEAs
Schedule 5—CEAs transferring unchanged from former determination
1 Application of Schedule
2 Allocation of existing CEA to continue the previous project activity
Part 1—Species presumed to have a short rotation
Part 2—Species presumed to have a long rotation
Part 3—Clearfell ages for plantation forest requirements
This is the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Plantation Forestry) Methodology Determination 2022.