Offset with terrestrial carbon that builds ecosytem resilience
Degree Celsius has established systems that aggregates economically viable quantities of greenhouse gases at a regional scale. The Degree Celsius model uses:
Existing Natural Resource Management plans, activities, networks and governance arrangements;
Existing methodologies for measuring abatement applied across regions within Regional Plan priorities;
Proprietary systems;
Newly developed methodologies;
Regionally differentiated management approaches that respond to regionally differentiated impacts.
Ethical Investment
The Degree Celsius model allows transaction costs to be spread, and aggregates many small and other sized landholdings and different activites cost-effectively. The regional carbon banks established enable improved adaptation to climate change by providing multiple biodiversity, soil productivity and water quality outcomes.
In April 2010 the 56 Regions that comprise Australia's landscape endorsed the model and agreed to support the initiative. This is the first national co-operative programme ever undertaken for natural resource management and it represents a common purpose across the countryside.
