Carbon rights on state land
Eligible activities
Before you make an application, please call us to discuss your project. This will help to avoid processing delays.
The following projects are eligible under the Emissions Reduction Fund:
- growing and keeping trees on a farm to store carbon dioxide - generally native trees will be grown and kept for a period of 25 or 100 years (sequestration offsets projects)
- adopting more sustainable agricultural practices on a farm, including savanna burning (emissions avoidance offsets projects)
- removing or modifying tidal restriction mechanisms (for example, a sea wall, bund, drain or tidal gate) to allow tidal flow to be introduced to a coastal wetland ecosystem (sequestration offsets and emission avoidance offsets projects).
There are 2 categories for project applications:
- leaseholders or licensees who don’t hold exclusive legal rights to the carbon must apply for eligible interest holder consent – this applies if you have a perpetual or term lease or occupation licence
- leaseholders who do hold exclusive legal rights to the carbon may apply for consent to registration of a carbon abatement interest – this applies to freeholding leases.
In this guide:
- Eligible activities
- Apply for eligible interest holder consent
- Apply for consent to registration of a carbon abatement interest