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Managing Fire and Measuring Progress in the Arafura Swamp Region

Applying Adaptive Fire Management to Maintain and Enhance Natural, Cultural and Social Values Workshop

Free, Prior and Informed Consent in REDD

Free, Prior and Informed Consent in REDD - Principles and Approaches for Policy and Project Development

Free, Prior and Informed Consent, and the Surui Carbon Project

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Carbon Publications & Links

Indigenous Australians Fight Climate Change with Fire

Heckbert, S. Russell-Smith, J. Reeson, A. James, G. 2011. Indigenous Australians Fight Climate Change with Fire. Solutions. Vol 2, No. 6. pp. 50-56

Methodology of Savanna Burning

There is a lot of complex science behind the Carbon Project. See the draft Methodology for Savanna Burning submitted to the Carbon Farming Initiative for a detailed explanation of how traditional Indigenous fire management abates greenhouse gas emissions.

Design of the Carbon Farming Initiative - Consultation Paper

This consultation paper is the government's first step in dialogue with stakeholders about the CFL. It describes and seeks stakeholder feedback on a range of options in relation to the design of the scheme. Submissions are due by 21 January, 2011.

Documentary - 'Heat Waves' NITV (features Joe Morrison)

Documentary 'Heat Waves' from NITV's Momentum series
http://nitv.org.au/subsite/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=0&Itemid=183
Momentum visited Saibai and Warraber in the Torres Strait Islands to record the damage of Climate Change in action and we report on the local solutions to the problem, including an innovative program in Northern Territory where traditional fire management practices have created Carbon Credits for the benefit of the people and the environment.

Website - Carbon Market Updates (2010)

Updates on carbon markets
http://www.pointcarbon.com/
A useful website for their free bi-weekly newsletter, or sign up for the subscription. (The free service is good)

Website - Biological and Cultural Diversity (2010)

Website - Biological and Cultural Diversity (2010)
http://www.cbd.int/meetings/icbcd/
International Conference on Biological and Cultural Diversity: Diversity for Development – Development for Diversity

Article UNU - Institute of Advanced Study - (2010)

Guest Article: The Road Ahead in Climate Change Negotiations
http://www.unutki.org/default.php?doc_id=172
Excellent follow up on COP 15 negotiations.

Book - Aboriginal fire use in Australian Tropical Savannas and Management Lessons (2009)

Tropical Fire Ecology - Climate Change, Land Use, and Ecosystem Dynamics.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/vp4256q8ut700788/
A new book by Mark A. Cochrane.

Televised Program - Carbon Country Update - Catalyst (ABC 2009)

Carbon Country Update
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2708783.htm
A follow up to Carbon Country 2006. "It’s soon after the wet season in western Arnhem land, and flames are trickling around our feet. These Aboriginal rangers are pioneering the first carbon trading project of its kind in the world." Mark Horstman

Website - Carbon trading and REDD - 2010

Website - Carbon
http://www.carbon-biodiversity.net/
An interesting website with a lot of information on REDD.

Report - Climate Change Adaptation - Vulnerable Communities (2009)

Climate Change - Institute of Development Studies.
http://www.itpubs.org.uk/docs/ia1/seminar-dec-2009/presentations/esrc-presentation-2.1-tom-mitchell-cca-social-protection.pdf
18 pg Report by Dr Tom Mitchell

Election Paper - A Healthy Environment (2010)

document A Healthy Environment - Julia Gillard and Labor, Let's move Australia forward
Julia Gillard July 2010 [pdf 707.7 kb]

Fact Sheet - Carbon Farming (2010)

document Carbon Farming Fact Sheet - July 2010
Julia Gillard [pdf 484.7 kb]

Book colour illustrated - CSIRO (2009)

CSIRO Book - Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas (2009)
http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/6056.htm
Colour book - 416 pages. Edited by: Jeremy Russell-Smith Peter Whitehead Peter Cooke

State and Trends of the Carbon Market - Report 2010

document State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2010
An 89 page pdf by the Environment Department. Alexandre Kossoy Philippe Ambrosi Senior Financial Specialist Environmental Economist Carbon Finance Unit Climate Change Team [pdf 1.9 Mb]

UNU Short Film - Dean Yibarbuk (2009)

Fighting Carbon with Fire
http://www.unutki.org/default.php?doc_id=148
Short film with Dean Yibarbuk, Senior Ranger and Indigenous Ecologist, Warddeken Land Management Ltd, Arnhem Land Australia

Report - DCCEE (2009) - Released 2010

document Risks from Climate Change to Indigenous Communities in the Tropical North
Please note this file is large. [pdf 7.6 Mb]

UNU Media Release - Carbon Market (2009)

UNU Indigenous fire practioners eye carbon market
http://www.unutki.org/default.php?doc_id=136
March 2009

UNU Short film - Climate Change Cape York (2009)

Sea level rise in Kowanyama, Cape York, Australia - UNU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwpth6nAJcs
January 2009 Indigenous Climate Change perspectives, Cape York, Australia When that whole ocean comes and rises up, where are we going to go? ponders Inherkowinginambana, a Kunjen elder from Kowanyama.

UNU Editorial on Indigenous innovation and climate change - (2009)

UNU - Indigenous innovation and climate change (2009)
http://www.unutki.org/news.php?news_id=95&doc_id=7
Editorial by UNU on Indigenous innovation and climate change.

NAILSMA Booklet - Carbon Social Program - Dec 2009

document Carbon Project Booklet - Social Program
Series one of the Carbon Social Program - 2009 Available on request. [pdf 2.4 Mb]

Booklet - 48 page UNU - Climate Change Experiences in Northern Australia - Health, Adaptation, Fire Management and Global Relevance - (2008)

document UNU Climate Change Booklet 48pages (2008)
North Australia [pdf 1.5 Mb]

A5 Booklet - Emissions Trading UNU #3 in the series (2009)

document UNU Emissions Trading IP's Guide - A5 Booklet (2009)
The third booklet in the series. [pdf 1.5 Mb]

ABC Televised Program - Carbon Country (2006) (footage no longer there)

Carbon Country - Catalyst (ABC Channel 19/10/06)
www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1769056.htm
This is the transcript of a report shown on Catalyst (ABC Channel 19/10/06). "In the first carbon trading agreement of its kind in the world, a company has struck a deal with a government and Aboriginal communities about greenhouse gas and fire management. In an exclusive report, Catalyst examines the science that underpins this agreement, and how carbon connects a remote bush camp with an industrial giant."

Journal of Biogeography (2004)

Landscape Analysis of Aboriginal Fire Management in Central Arnhem Land, North Australia
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3554651
D. M. J. S. Bowman, Angie Walsh and L. D. Prior Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Feb., 2004), pp. 207-223(article consists of 17 pages) Published by: Blackwell Publishing

document NAILSMA Copenhagen Poster 1
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document NAILSMA Copenhagen Poster 2
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document NAILSMA Copenhagen Poster 3
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