Carbon Capture Project - Final Report (Pdf - 7.2MB)
Summary:
This study was an initiative of the Department of Agriculture and Food WA, Rangelands NRM WA and the ChemCentre and was funded by the Caring for our Country Program of the Commonwealth Government.
The study involved an in-depth assessment of the greenhouse gas (GHG) biosequestration potential of three case study business in the Kimberley-Pilbara region of WA. The study completed a natural resource inventory of the pastoral leases and financially benchmarked the existing pastoral businesses. A comprehensive carbon accounting survey of the three leases was then conducted in order to establish the baseline levels of carbon. The survey directly measured the main carbon pools (i.e. aboveground woody material, coarse woody debris, herbaceous standing and surface litter and soil carbon) and used allometric relationships to derive estimates of the others.
Finally, carbon modelling of different management scenarios based on a range of grazing and savanna burning regimes was conducted for the three businesses in order to examine the potential for biosequestration. (Extract from Executive Summary - Carbon Report)
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