Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I think that is very similar to a question you asked me in question time on either Monday or Tuesday this week. I know that this is an area of particular concern to you but, as I indicated to you then, the management of national parks is not a federal government responsibility; it is a state government responsibility. In relation to agricultural soils and biosequestration through soil carbon and biochar I would just make the point that, in the absence of those things being included and being capable of being included in the international rules, what we have committed to the opposition is to promote these through the voluntary market. We will implement a national carbon offset standard to provide a market for abatement from sources that are not counted currently under the international rules. They include: agricultural soils; grazing and cropland management, including biosequestration through soil carbon and biochar; and a range of other things which are contained in the offer document, which I think you would have seen.