Eric Barker

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A REVIEW of Australia’s soil carbon scheme is showing ongoing division about how the industry should be legislated, prompting the soil carbon industry to call for suspensions of the program to be quickly ruled out. Soil carbon is one of the only agriculture-based methodologies in Australia’s carbon market. It incentivises producers to measure soil carbon stocks, change practices and awards them with Australian Carbon Credit Units if they measure increases in the years after.