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The South Australian Forestry Corporation trading as ForestrySA manages the state owned forest resource in South Australia. The South Australian Forestry Corporation commenced trading on 1 January 2001, the date which marked its transformation from a state government department business unit to a business focussed corporation.

The presenters outline the context of forest erosion and water quality protection.

The overall aim of the NCAS is: "To provide a complete accounting and forecasting capability for human-induced sources and sinks of greenhouse gas emissions from Australian land-based systems for developing an optimum greenhouse policy response to requirements of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its instruments."--Introd. (Web site)

"The colour of carbon matters. Green carbon is the carbon stored in plants and soil of natural ecosystems and is a vital part of the global carbon cycle. This report is the first in a series that examines the role of natural forests in the storage of carbon, the impacts of human land use activities, and the implications for climate change policy nationally and internationally. REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation) is now part of the agenda for the Bali Road Map being debated in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009. Currently, international rules are blind to the colour of carbon so that the green carbon in natural forests is not recognized, resulting in perverse outcomes including ongoing deforestation and forest degradation, and the conversion of extensive areas of land to industrial plantations. This report examines REDD policy from a green carbon scientific perspective. Subsequent reports will focus on issues concerning the carbon sequestration potential of commercially logged natural forests, methods for monitoring REDD, and the long term implications of forest policy and management for the global carbon cycle and climate change."--Provided by publisher.