'The idea is coming of age': Indigenous Australians take carbon farming to Canada

Australia’s world-leading Indigenous land management and carbon farming programs are spreading internationally, with a formal agreement signed to help build a similar program in Canada.

A chance meeting between Rowen Foley from the Aboriginal Carbon Fund and a Candian carbon credit businessman at the 2015 Paris climate conference spawned a relationship that led to an agreement this week that will help Canadian First Nations peoples learn from the Australian Aboriginal carbon farming success.

“Sometimes chance meetings are a form of karma or synchronicity at play,” Foley says.

Foley set up the Aboriginal Carbon Fund in 2010 to help other Indigenous organisations make money by managing land in such a way that it sequesters carbon in the soil.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jul/23/indigenous-australians-carbon-farming-canada

Michael Loke

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