30Simplified outline of this Part

30  Simplified outline of this Part

This determination accounts for carbon abatement from undertaking savanna fire management in accordance with this determination, crediting abatement from the avoidance of emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, as well as abatement from carbon dioxide that is removed from the atmosphere and sequestered in dead organic matter in savannas.

A project covered by this determination is a sequestration offsets project, and as such is subject to the obligations under the Act that relate to the permanence period.

To ascertain the net abatement amount in relation to a reporting period for a savanna sequestration project under this determination, the project proponent calculates the adjusted contributions from emissions avoidance and from sequestration of carbon in dead organic matter for each calendar year that ends during the reporting period, and adds these together. These calculations may be performed using SavBAT 3, or in accordance with Schedules 1 and 2 respectively.

If the project has 2 or more project areas, adjusted contributions to the net abatement amount are calculated separately for each project area and added together.

When calculating the contribution to the net abatement amount from emissions avoidance, the calculations account for all fuel size classes (that is, shrub fuel, fine fuel, coarse fuel and heavy fuel). In contrast, when calculating the contribution to the net abatement amount from sequestration, the calculations account only for dead organic matter that consists of coarse fuel and heavy fuel. Sequestration calculations assume that there is no net change in carbon stored in fine and shrub fuels as a result of the project activity.