Greenfleet

With more than 13 years' experience in planting native forests for carbon capture, Greenfleet is assisting CSIRO to assist in developing improved models for Australian carbon forests.

This is part of the 'National project on refinement of Australia's National Carbon Accounting System for estimating carbon stored in the biomass of environmental and mallee plantings,' a project funded by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and CSIRO, with collaboration from a range of state government departments, universities and industry.

The project aims to increase the capacity of the National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS) to account for environmental and mallee plantings, which are currently based on conservative estimates (environmental planting^) or no default values at all (mallee plantings).

Greenfleet has provided CSIRO with data gathered during in-field monitoring and measurement of Greenfleet's established environmental plantings.

CSIRO will combine Greenfleet measurements with data from other planting projects around Australia to investigate how different site and management factors influence the carbon accumulation of these plantings.

The aim is to reward good management and site selection by having verified NCAS defaults which are influenced by key site and management factors.

Greenfleet is pleased to contribute to such an important project, which we know will demonstrate the impressive carbon storage capabilities of environmental plantings, in addition to their many other benefits including habitat for wildlife, increased biodiversity, and improved water, air and soil quality.

^Environmental plantings refers to revegetation projects that contain a variety of tree species, with species varying from one area to another - based on the local conditions.  The majority of carbon models are currently based on single species plantations.