Closed methods
Closed methods are methods that have expired or revoked. No new projects can be registered under closed methods.
Existing projects can continue to run under these methods as long as they have started their crediting period.
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by feeding dietary additives to milking cows (2013)
- Destruction of methane generated from manure in piggeries (2012)
- Destruction of methane generated from manure in piggeries V1.1 (2013)
- Destruction of methane from piggeries using engineered biodigesters (2013)
- Destruction of methane generated from dairy manure in covered anaerobic ponds (2012)
Support resources:
- Australian pork's national environmental guidelines for piggeries 2010
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 (DCCEEW) 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 from landfill for process engineered fuel manufacture (2012)
- Avoided emissions from diverting legacy waste through a composting alternative waste technology (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
- DCCEEW'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)
Support resources:
Capture and combustion of methane in landfill gas from legacy waste (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)
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
- DCCEEW's National Greenhouse Gas Inventory
- Solid waste calculator
Enclosed mechanical processing and composting alternative waste treatment (2013)
Support resources:
Sequestering carbon in soils in grazing systems method (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)
Support resources:
Human-Induced Regeneration of a Permanent Even-Aged Native Forest—1.1 (2013)
Support resources:
- 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
- DCCEEW's Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM)
- DCCEEW's Full Carbon Account Model (FullCAM) Guidelines
- DCCEEW's Carbon Farming Initiative Mapping Guidelines
- Notifiable regeneration project requirements
- Combining multiple CEAs for RMT-based methodologies
Avoided deforestation 1 (2015)
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)
Support resources:
- DCCEEW's Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM)
- Full 's Accounting Model (FullCAM) Guidelines
- A guide to the 2020 FullCAM – transition arrangements
Avoided deforestation (2013)
Support resources:
- DCCEEW's CFI Mapping Guidelines
Human-induced regeneration of a permanent even-aged native forest 1.0 (2013)
Support resources:
- Eligible interest holder consent
- Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM)
- DCCEEW's CFI Mapping Guidelines
- DCCEEW's Vegetation abatement estimates using FullCAM
Quantifying carbon sequestration methods
- Quantifying carbon sequestration by permanent environmental plantings of native species using the CFI reforestation modelling tool (2012)
- Quantifying carbon sequestration by permanent mallee plantings using the reforestation modelling tool (2013)
Support resources:
- A guide to the Mallee plantings using RMT method
- Eligible interest holder consent
- DCCEEW's CFI Mapping Guidelines
- DCCEEW's Vegetation abatement estimates using FullCAM
- CFI rainfall map
Reforestation and afforestation methods
- Reforestation and afforestation (2013)
- Reforestation and afforestation 1.1 (2013)
- Reforestation and afforestation 1.2 (2013)
Support resources:
- Eligible interest holder consent
- Full Carbon Accounting Model (FullCAM)
- DCCEEW's CFI Mapping Guidelines
Native forest from managed regrowth method
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