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The Permanent Forest Sink Initiative: A consultation document on the proposed regulations, cost recovery methods and forest sink covenant

Submissions about this consultation document have now closed.

• Disclaimer
• Introduction
  • Tell us what you think
  • Relationship with the Government’s wider climate change policy consultation
  • About the PFSI
  • Key features of the PFSI
• Proposed regulations
  • Application process and eligibility
  • Harvesting
  • Carbon accounting and entitlement to units
  • Record keeping and certifiers
  • Questions about the proposed regulations
• Cost recovery
  • Options for cost recovery mechanisms
  • Proposed cost recovery mechanism and fees
  • Questions about cost recovery
• Risk management
  • Questions about risk management
• Forest sink covenant
  • Questions about the covenant
• Appendix 1: Forest sink covenant
• Submission form: PFSI consultation on regulation, cost recovery methods and forest sink covenant

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