Climate Change
The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) was to be implemented in July 2011; however, after several failed attempts to pass legislation through Parliament in 2009, this policy was put aside and it is unclear when or if the CPRS will be introduced.
It is to be expected a policy, or suite of policies, will be introduced in the future to place a carbon cost on the Australian economy. A3P will continue to engage in policy development processes and consultations, highlighting the specific challenges and opportunities which will be faced by the plantation products and paper industry when such a cost is introduced. These include:
- Ensuring that emissions-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) processes in pulp & paper and panel boards manufacturing are treated in a way that prevents “carbon leakage” – the decline of local manufacturing capacity which would be supplemented by increased production in countries that do not factor in a carbon cost. If these sectors suffer a loss of competition through the introduction of a carbon cost in Australia while competitors have no equivalent cost on their production, the whole forest and forest products supply chain would be affected (including plantation growers and solid wood processors).
- Achieving recognition of the carbon storage that occurs through plantation growing by applying the carbon cost to reforestation activities and allowing growers to sell their eligible abatement into the carbon market. Increased mitigation through reforestation will depend on sensible and rigorous rules, including measuring forest growth and carbon storage.
- Working towards a more comprehensive approach to accounting for carbon flows throughout the forest and forest products supply chain, including by recognising carbon storage in wood products through a carbon price mechanism
Energy
More Information
- Submission to RET Discussion Paper – Enhancing the Renewable Energy Target
- RET Submission to Draft Regulations
- RET Submission to Solar Credits Discussion Paper
- CPRS EITE Draft Regulations Submission
- Submission - Senate Standing Committee on Economics
- Submission to CPRS Exposure Draft Bill
- Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Climate Policy Adobe PDF | 0.1MB |
- CPRS Submission to Senate Economics Committee Adobe PDF | 0.1MB |
- Critique of ABARE Carbon Sink Reforestation Modeling Adobe PDF | 0.1MB |
- A3P's Submission to the Government's Carbon Polluiton Reduction Scheme Green Paper
- Joint submission on the Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper by forest industry organisations
- A3P Submission to the Government's Reforestation paper of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Harvested Wood Products Presentations
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