35 Monitoring requirements The project proponent for a soil carbon project must comply with the monitoring requirements set out in the following table in accordance with the instructions given in the table. Monitoring requirements Item Parameter Description Instructions 1 (see schedule 2, equation 46) Number of animals in livestock gijk within the CEAs and emissions accounting areas of each project area in each year (B) of the baseline period. Livestock head Determined in accordance with section 36. 2 (see schedule 2, equation 46) Period (in days) in year B of the baseline period that livestock gijk was within the CEAs and emissions accounting areas of each project area. Days Determined in accordance with section 36. 3 (see schedule 2, equation 64) Number of animals in livestock group gijk that were within the CEAs and emissions accounting areas of each project area. Livestock head Determined in accordance with section 36. 4 (see schedule 2, equation 47) Stocking rate of the CEAs and emissions accounting areas of each project area for the first year Y of the project. Animal Determined consistently with section 36 for the first year of the project. 5 (see schedule 2, equation 66) quantity of synthetic fertiliser group fij applied to the CEAs and emissions accounting areas of each project area. t fertiliser Evidenced by invoices, contractual arrangements or records 6 (see schedule 2, equation 65) Quantity of urea applied to the CEAs and emissions accounting areas of each project area. t urea Evidenced by invoices, contractual arrangements or sales records 7 (see schedule 2, equation 68) Quantity of lime type l applied in the CEAs and emissions accounting areas of each project area. t Evidenced by invoices, contractual arrangements or sales records 8 (see schedule 2, equation 72) Quantity of harvested crop by crop type v in the reporting period in the CEAs and emissions accounting areas of each project area. t of crop Evidenced by invoices, contractual arrangements or industry standard practices 9 (see schedule 2, equation 72) Fraction of crop residue from crop type v that was removed from the CEAs and emissions accounting areas of each project area. Decimal Evidenced by invoices, contractual arrangements or industry standard practices
10 (see schedule 2, equation 70) Tilled area for pasture establishment or renovation in the CEAs and emissions accounting areas of each project area. ha Using mapping approach under the Supplement. 11 (see schedule 2, equation 75) Quantity of fuel used to irrigate the CEAs and emissions accounting areas of each project area. kL Evidenced by invoices or contractual arrangements and apportioned based on hectares of the carbon estimation area irrigated as a fraction of the total hectares of land irrigated and the fuel used to run all pumps on that land 12 (see schedule 2, equation 76) Quantity of electricity used to irrigate the CEAs and emissions accounting areas of each project area. kWh or GJ Evidenced by invoices or contractual arrangements and apportioned based on hectares of the carbon estimation area irrigated as a fraction of the total hectares of land irrigated and the fuel used to run all pumps on that land. Where electricity purchased is measured in gigajoules, the quantity of kWh must be calculated by dividing the amount of GJ by 0.0036. 13 (see schedule 1, equations 29 and 42) Quantity of biochar applied in a CEA. t Evidenced by invoices, contractual arrangements or sales records. Note: As emissions under Schedule 2 are calculated with reference to the CEAs and emissions accounting areas within a project area (see section 3 of Schedule 2), any emissions in exclusion areas do no need to be monitored. 36 Project monitoring—livestock (1) Subject to section 37, for the baseline period and the crediting period, the project proponent must determine the following parameters at least once a year: (a) the number of animals within each project area, according to species, state/region and livestock class; (b) the number of days, according to season, that the animals are on the CEA within a year. (2) For the purposes of determining the number of animals in each livestock class, the date of birth of each animal is deemed to be the first day of summer. (3) For the purposes of this section, data collection: (a) may include the use of log books, farm gate records, or similar methods; and (b) must be sufficiently accurate to capture stock movements according to group characteristics, by day and by season.
6 Determining Equivalent Soil Mass (ESM) from sampling round masses (1) The equivalent soil mass (the ESM), in tonnes per hectare, for each CEA must be calculated in accordance with this section. (2) The corrected soil masses Mi from equation 6 must be: (a) ranked from lowest to highest for each CEA; and (b) assigned a sequential rank k from 1 to the number of samples in the CEA N. (3) A percentile P must be calculated for each value of k using the following equation: equation 7 (4) If one of the percentiles given by equation 7 is 10—the ESM for the CEA is the mass of the soil layer given by equation 6. (5) If subsection (4) does not ESM for each CEA is given by the following equation: equation 8 MLB is the corrected soil mass of the sample i, which has been assigned the lower bound rank LB as having the value of P closest to and lower than 10, in tonnes of soil per hectare, as given by equation 6. MUB is the corrected soil mass of the sample i, has been assigned the upper bound rank UB as having the value of P closest to and higher than 10, in tonnes of soil per hectare, as given by equation 6. PLB is the percentile P associated with the lower bound rank LB given by equation 7. PUB is the percentile P associated with the bound rank UB given by equation 7. 7 Calculation of SOC stock in each sample (1) If carbon analysis is undertaken on a homogenised sample as outlined in the Supplement—the for each sample i, in tonnes of carbon per hectare, is given by the following equation: equation 9 where: ESM is determined in accordance with section 6 of this Schedule for the CEA to which the sample belongs. OCi is the organic carbon content of the sample layer of sample i, as a percentage of oven dry soil mass, determined in accordance with any requirements in Supplement.