All Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) Scheme services are progressively moving from Client Portal to Online Services.
This means that over time there will be one location for:
- scheme enrolment
- registering new projects
- varying existing projects
- reporting and crediting for existing projects
- notifying us of events impacting your project
- managing your project, including user permissions.
We have upgraded our systems to make participation easy and application processing faster. Read more about improving ACCU Scheme services.
We’ll continue to update this page as new capabilities are rolled out in Online Services.
Drafts will be lost
Draft forms in legacy Client Portal can’t be transferred and will be lost once the method moves to Online Services. Our schedule below shows which methods will be affected and at what time.
Form transition schedule
The following are timeframes for ACCU forms transitioning to Online services. We will publish dates for future activities as more information becomes available.
15 May 2025
- Human-Induced Regeneration of a Permanent Even-Aged Native Forest crediting form
- Native Forest from Managed Regrowth crediting form
- Measurement of Soil Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Systems crediting form
- Sequestering Carbon in Soils in Grazing Systems crediting form
- Tidal Restoration of Blue Carbon Ecosystems registration form
- Aggregated Small Energy Users crediting form
Forms to be transitioned in 2025
- Tidal Restoration of Blue Carbon Ecosystems crediting form
Previous updates
March 2025
- Domestic, Commercial and Industrial Wastewater 2015 (compilation 3)
- Plantation Forestry 2022 – Alternative Assurance
22 November 2024
- Reforestation by environmental or mallee plantings FullCAM 2024
2 October 2024
- Emissions Abatement through Savanna Fire Management 2015
- Plantation Forestry 2017
- Plantation Forestry 2022
14 August 2024
- Alternative Waste Treatment
- Animal Effluent Management
- Avoided Clearing of Native Regrowth
- Coal Mine Waste Gas
- Commercial and Public Lighting
- Domestic, Commercial and Industrial Wastewater
- Electricity Generation from Landfill Gas
- Industrial and Commercial Emissions Reduction
- Industrial Electricity and Fuel Efficiency
- Land and Sea Transport
- Landfill Gas 2015 (Principal)
- Measurement Based Methods for New Farm Forestry Plantations
- Quantifying Carbon Sequestration by Permanent Environmental Plantings of Native Tree Species using the CFI Reforestation Modelling Tool
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Fertiliser in Irrigated Cotton
- Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Early Dry Season Savanna Burning–1.1
- Reforestation and Afforestation
- Reforestation by Environmental or Mallee Plantings – FullCAM (Principal and Compilation 1)
- Savanna Fire Management – Emissions Avoidance
- Savanna Fire Management – Sequestration and Emissions Avoidance
- Source Separated Organic Waste
26 June 2024
- Aggregated Small Energy Users
- Aviation
- Avoided Deforestation
- Beef Cattle Herd Management
- Carbon Capture and Storage
- Commercial Buildings
- Designated Verified Carbon Standard Projects
- Estimating Sequestration of Carbon in Soil Using Default Values
- Facilities
- High Efficiency Commercial Appliances
- Industrial Equipment Upgrades
- Oil and Gas Fugitives
- Quantifying Carbon Sequestration by Permanent Mallee Plantings using the Reforestation Modelling Tool
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Feeding Nitrates to Beef Cattle
- Reforestation by Environmental or Mallee Plantings – FullCAM (Compilation 2) (including Pilot projects)
- Refrigeration and Ventilation Fans
2023
- Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration using Measurement and Models
- Landfill Gas 2015 (Compilation 1)
5 December 2024
- Vary project – project revocation forms
14 August 2024
- Vary project – proponent
- Vary project – area
- Vary project – conditions
- Vary project – method
- Vary project – start date
Latest improvements to Online Services
We’ve made improvements to Online Services so it’s easier for you to manage your project.
Supporting ACCU Scheme transparency changes
We're changing Online Services forms to make sure structured data is consistently collected to publish on the ACCU Scheme project register. These are:
- including details of the estimation or measurement approach or model used to calculate carbon abatement
- including any significantly involved persons that have been relied on for project registration or administration
- options to voluntarily provide extra information about the project through a PDF attachment or a hyperlink to an external website which we'll publish alongside the project register.
Requests for information
Our requests for further information regarding an application will now be managed using a new form in Online Services. We’ll send you an email asking you to log in to Online Services to provide the required information.
Project list
A new project list is available on the Online Services homepage. It contains a list of the projects that you have permission to act for and allows you to easily navigate to the project view for more detailed information.
Project view
A new project view function allows you to see the details about your project including upcoming milestones and history of report submissions. It also allows you to manage your project by starting a new offsets report, varying the project or submitting a notification.
Use the project view function to check your data before it is published on the project register. If you find any errors, email your assessment team by 11:59 pm on 30 April 2025.
Providing feedback
You can provide feedback about these improvements via the banner in Online Services. Your feedback is important and helps us to continuously improve our services.