Closed methods

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by feeding dietary additives to milking cows

• Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Feeding Dietary Additives to Milking Cows) Methodology Determination 2013

Destruction of methane methods

• Carbon Farming (Destruction of Methane Generated from Manure in Piggeries) Methodology Determination 2012 
• Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Destruction of Methane Generated from Manure in Piggeries-1.1) Methodology Determination 2013
• Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Destruction of Methane from Piggeries using Engineered Biodigesters) Methodology Determination 2013
• Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Destruction of Methane Generated from Dairy Manure in Covered Anaerobic Ponds) Methodology Determination 2012

Support resources:

• Australian pork's national environmental guidelines for piggeries 2010

Feeding nitrates to beef cattle

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Feeding Nitrates to Beef Cattle) Methodology Determination 2014 and its explanatory statement

Support resources:

• A guide to the feeding nitrates to beef cattle method

Commercial and public lighting

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative – Commercial and Public Lighting) Methodology Determination 2015 and its Explanatory Statement

Support resources:

• Commercial and Public Lighting - Regulatory advice on co-location of activities with other government programs
• Commercial and Public Lighting - Regulatory advice on the application of lamp circuit power (watts) factor calculation for voltage reduction unit control gear
• Commercial and Public Lighting - Regulatory advice on the application of air conditioning factors

Industrial electricity and fuel efficiency

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative - Industrial Electricity and Fuel Efficiency) Methodology Determination 2015 and its Explanatory Statement

Support resources:

• Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environments and Water's information about the revoked industrial electricity and fuel efficiency method
• A guide to using the industrial electricity and fuel efficiency method

Avoided emissions from diverting legacy waste methods

• Avoided emissions from diverting legacy waste from landfill for process engineered fuel manufacture (2012)
• Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Avoided Emissions from Diverting Legacy Waste through a Composting Alternative Waste Technology) Methodology Determination 2013

Support resources:

• National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007
• National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Regulations 2008
• National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Measurement) Determination 2008
• Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Conservative Estimates, Projections or Assumptions: Greenhouse FriendlyTM Initiative Transitional Crediting Calculation (Alternative Waste Treatment)) Determination 2012
• National Measurement Act 1960
• The department's National Greenhouse Gas Inventory
• Solid waste calculator​
• ABS Survey of Motor Vehicle Use for 2010​

Capture and combustion of methane in landfill gas from legacy waste: upgrade projects (2012)

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Capture and Combustion of Methane in Landfill Gas from Legacy Waste: Upgrade projects) Methodology Determination 2012

Support resources:

• Regulatory advice on accounting for electricity under the Landfill Gas (Upgrades) methodology determination

Capture and combustion of methane in landfill gas from legacy waste (2012)

Carbon Farming (Capture and Combustion of Methane in Landfill Gas from Legacy Waste) Methodology Determination 2012

Support resources:

• A guide to the landfill capture and combustion method 
• National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Measurement) Determination 2008
• Regulatory Baselines in NSW for Landfill gas legacy waste projects

Diversion of legacy waste to an alternative waste treatment facility (2013)

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Diversion of Legacy Waste to an Alternative Waste Treatment Facility) Methodology Determination 2013

Support resources:

• National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007
• National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Regulations 2008
• National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Measurement) Determination 2008
• Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Conservative Estimates, Projections or Assumptions: Greenhouse FriendlyTM Initiative Transitional Crediting Calculation (Alternative Waste Treatment)) Determination 2012
• National Measurement Act 1960
• The department's National Greenhouse Gas Inventory
• Solid waste calculator

Enclosed mechanical processing and composting alternative waste treatment (2013)

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Enclosed Mechanical Processing and Composting Alternative Waste Treatment) Methodology Determination 2013

Support resources:

• National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007
• National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Regulations 2008
• National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Measurement) Determination 2008
• National Measurement Act 1960
• The department's National Greenhouse Gas Inventory

Reduction of greenhouse gas methods

• Carbon Farming (Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Early Dry Season Savanna Burning) Methodology Determination 2012 
• Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Early Dry Season Savanna Burning—1.1) Methodology Determination 2013

Support resources:

• Savanna Burning Abatement Tool (SavBAT)
• The department's Savanna fire management 1000mm rainfall map

Emissions abatement through savanna fire management 2015

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Emissions Abatement through Savanna Fire Management) Methodology Determination 2015

Support resources:

• Savanna Burning Abatement Tool (SavBAT)
• The department's Savanna fire management 1000mm rainfall map
• Meeting regulatory additionality requirements for savanna fire management projects in National Parks
   

Sequestering carbon in soils in grazing systems method (2014)

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Sequestering Carbon in Soils in Grazing Systems) Methodology Determination 2014 

Support resources:

• Download Carbon Farming Initiative soil sampling design method and guidelines (Note: Appendix A of this document provides guidance on sampling intensity and frequency)
• A guide to the sequestering carbon in soils in grazing systems method
• Soil sampling technicians

Measurement of soil carbon sequestration in agricultural systems method (2018)

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Measurement of Soil Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Systems) Methodology Determination 2018

Support resources:

• Guidance for meeting the requirements of soil carbon land management strategies

Human-Induced Regeneration of a Permanent Even-Aged Native Forest—1.1 (2013)

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Human-Induced Regeneration of a Permanent Even-Aged Native Forest—1.1) Methodology Determination 2013 

Support resources:

• method webpage
• Guidance for ACCU Scheme participants impacted by the expiry or sunsetting of an ACCU Scheme method
• Human-induced regeneration (HIR) Gateway Audit Requirements
• Independent review of HIR gateway checks
• ACCU Review Recommendation 8: HIR Implementation
• Guidelines on stratification evidence and records for HIR and NFMR
• Combined CEAs in regeneration and environmental planting projects
• Applying the newness requirement to projects under forest regeneration methods (Revised Regulatory Guidance)
• Evidence required for regeneration sequestration projects
• Human Induced Regeneration projects and how they affect the management of land at a property scale
• Modelling commencement dates for human-induced regeneration projects
• The department's Full Carbon Accounting Model ​​(FullCAM)Full Carbon Account Model (FullCAM) Guidelines​
• The department's Carbon Farming Initiative Mapping Guidelines
• Notifiable regeneration project requirements
• Combining multiple CEAs for RMT-based methodologies

Avoided deforestation 1 (2015)

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Avoided Deforestation 1.1—Revocation) Instrument 2023

Support resources:

• Avoided deforestation 1.1 method (includes information about the development of the method and past consultation on the method)
• A guide to using the avoided deforestation 1.1 method for projects already registered under the method

Plantation forestry (2017)

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Plantation Forestry) Methodology Determination 2017

Support resources:

• The department's Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM)
• The department's Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM) Guidelines
• A guide to the 2020 FullCAM – transition arrangements

Avoided deforestation (2013)

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Avoided Deforestation) Methodology Determination 2013

Support resources:

• The department's CFI Mapping Guidelines

Human-induced regeneration of a permanent even-aged native forest 1.0 (2013)

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Human Induced Regeneration of a Permanent Even-Aged Native Forest) Methodology Determination 2013

Support resources:

• Eligible interest holder consent
• Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM)​​
• The department's CFI Mapping Guidelines
• The department's Vegetation abatement estimates using FullCAM

Quantifying carbon sequestration methods​

• Carbon Farming (Quantifying Carbon Sequestration by Permanent Environmental Plantings of Native Species using the CFI Reforestation Modelling Tool) Methodology Determination 2012
• Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Quantifying Carbon Sequestration by Permanent Mallee Plantings using the Reforestation Modelling Tool) Methodology Determination 2013

Support resources:

• A guide to the Mallee plantings using RMT method
• Eligible interest holder consent
• The department's CFI Mapping Guidelines
• The department's Vegetation abatement estimates using FullCAM
• CFI rainfall map

Reforestation and afforestation methods

• Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Reforestation and Afforestation) Methodology Determination 2013
• Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Reforestation and Afforestation-1.1) Methodology Determination 2013
• Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Reforestation and Afforestation—1.2) Methodology Determination 2013

Support resources:

• Eligible interest holder consent
• Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM)
• The department's CFI Mapping Guidelines

Native forest from managed regrowth method

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Native Forest from Managed Regrowth) Methodology Determination 2013

Support resources:

• Guidance for ACCU Scheme participants impacted by the expiry or sunsetting of an ACCU Scheme method 
• Guidelines on stratification evidence and records for HIR and NFMR 
• Carbon Farming Initiative Mapping Guidelines
• Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM)
• Guidance for using FullCAM in native forest from managed regrowth projects

Reforestation by environmental or mallee plantings FullCAM

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Reforestation by Environmental or Mallee Plantings—FullCAM) Methodology Determination 2014

Support resources:

• Reforestation by environmental or mallee plantings FullCAM 2014 method
• Guide to the reforestation by environmental or mallee plantings FullCAM method
• Guidance on combined CEAs in regeneration and environmental planting projects
• The department's Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM)
• The department's Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM) Guidelines
• Long term annual rainfall map

Environmental plantings pilot method

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Reforestation by Environmental or Mallee Plantings—FullCAM) Methodology Determination 2014

Support resources:

• Environmental plantings pilot method
• Environmental plantings pilot - information pack
• Environmental plantings pilot - permanence plan template

Measurement based methods for new farm forestry plantations method

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Measurement Based Methods for New Farm Forestry Plantations) Methodology Determination 2014

Support resources:

• Measurement based methods for new farm forestry plantations method
• The department's Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM)
• The department's Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM) Guidelines
• A guide to the farm forestry method