Registration deadline approaching for existing abatement projects

One of the key features of the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) is that projects need to be ‘new’ at the time of registration. From 1 July, only ‘paper projects’ (projects in concept phase up to and including a completed design but without a formal decision to go ahead) will be allowed to participate.

However, if your project has already started, you can apply before 1 July and automatically become a transitional ERF applicant. Your project application will be assessed under the rules of the ERF, with some adjustments:

• Projects do not need to be new.
• Projects can be backdated in line with the rules allowed by the Carbon Farming Initiative method you have chosen to use.
• If you are a Recognised Offsets Entity under the Carbon Farming Initiative, that ‘fit and proper person test’ will satisfy the ERF entry requirements.

If you have already started an activity and have not submitted an application for a project, you won’t be able to participate in the ERF. This is because your project would not be considered new.

With only eight weeks until 1 July, now is the time to register your carbon abatement activities. These may include:

• Capture and combustion of methane in landfill gas from legacy waste.
• Avoided emissions from diverting legacy waste from landfill for process engineered fuel manufacture.
• Avoided emissions from diverting legacy waste from landfill through a composting alternative waste technology.
• Diversion of legacy waste to an alternative waste treatment facility.
• Enclosed mechanical processing and composting alternative waste treatment.
• Destruction of methane generated from manure in piggeries.
• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by feeding nitrates to beef cattle or additives to milking cows.
• Sequestering carbon in soil in grazing systems.
• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through early dry season savannah burning.
• Native forest protection (avoided deforestation).
• Reforestation and afforestation.

For more information, please contact Jordon Wong or Julien Gastaldi on 0479 043 903.