Soil Carbon Accounts 2021. Experimental Account for the Hunter FER.

This data cube presents accounts for Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) stocks and flows in the Hunter Functional Economic Region (FER). These accounts form part of the Natural Capital Markets and Accounts branch Soil Ecosystem Services theme, which currently includes a Soil Organic Carbon physical stock account (SOC storage), and a Soil Organic Carbon physical flow account (SOC sequestration). These accounts are intended to help policy makers identify where to implement programs to maintain stocks of soil organic carbon and to increase carbon sequestration, as part of the NSW NetZero Plan. As well as accounts for physical stocks and flows, this suite of accounts includes a linked socio-economic profile. This profile comprises socio-economic information for ABS Statistical Area 2 (SA2) geographies for the Hunter FER and provides information on the socio-economic structure of the local economy of each SA2 and its major types of economic activity. The socio-economic profile is intended to help account users identify the economic activities and related land uses in each SA2 which may affect the extent and condition of the SOC stocks shown in the accounts.