This guidance outlines our position and rationale for Australian Carbon Credit Unit Scheme projects modelling abatement for 'combined CEAs'. The guidance applies to the following methodologies:
- human-induced regeneration of a permanent even-aged native forest (closed)
- reforestation by environmental or mallee plantings
- native forest from managed regrowth (closed).
This guidance supersedes previous regulatory guidance on combining multiple CEAs for RMT-based methodologies.
This guidance applies to projects:
- currently stratified with a combined CEA
- undergoing initial stratification of CEAs in accordance with the relevant method
- containing a CEA with an unbroken perimeter that is larger than the boundaries specified in the method and will be restratified into more than one CEA part in accordance with the method.
Existing projects that do not have combined CEAs or meet the categories above cannot redefine their CEAs in accordance with this guidance because it is important to maintain continuity in CEA boundaries and stratification approaches between reporting periods.