Carbon rights on state land

Eligible activities

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

1. Eligible activities
2. Apply for eligible interest holder consent
3. Apply for consent to registration of a carbon abatement interest

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