Welcome to this blog which hopefully will provide a discussion forum about carbon farming and associated legal issues.
While there continues to be a significant degree of uncertainty as to future policy directions in relation to a carbon price, a solid amount of work has already been done in setting up a legal framework on which a long term carbon market can develop. Every market has its early and late participants; the distinguishing feature of the carbon market is that it has been created to (1) reduce and (2) reabsorb pollution of the atmosphere released by the emission of green house gases. The aim of this is to prevent global temperatures rising so much that the planet becomes irrevocably degraded as habitat for the species now living on it. Read more
