Overview
Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) Scheme process
The Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) Scheme is a government-regulated scheme that issues tradable carbon credits for verified emissions reductions or removals, helping businesses and the nation meet climate targets through credible, measurable abatement.
All draft methods under the ACCU Scheme must be assessed by the independent Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee (ERAC) to ensure methods comply with the Offsets Integrity Standards (OIS). If the ERAC finds a method does not meet the legislated OIS, the Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy, cannot make it. Before providing advice to the Assistant Minister, ERAC must publish a detailed outline of the draft method, open consultation for 28 days and consider public submissions provided through the department’s website. The feedback from public submissions will inform the ERAC’s assessment of whether the method complies with the legislated OIS.
Integrated Farm and Land Management (IFLM) method
The draft IFLM method is the first ACCU Scheme method to provide a modular framework for crediting multiple abatement activities on the same property. The method is designed to allow more activities, abatement estimation approaches and carbon pools to be added over time, including through the proponent led method development process.
The IFLM method builds on earlier ACCU Scheme vegetation methods and considers new science and technology and feedback from scientists, land managers, carbon service providers and the Clean Energy Regulator on the operation of existing permanent plantings and native forest regeneration ACCU Scheme projects.
The detailed outline of the draft IFLM method for consultation comprises a core framework with separate schedules for:
Three project activities:
Regeneration of native forest on cleared lands
Reforestation by environmental or mallee plantings
Regeneration of native forest on suppressed land.
Two calculation approaches:
FullCAM-only
FullCAM-Measure hybrid.
On behalf of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee (ERAC), we invite you to make a submission on the draft IFLM method that is open for consultation from 27 January to 23 February 2026. Make your submission by clicking ‘Take the survey’ under the Have Your Say heading below.
The draft IFLM method was released prior to the ERAC’s public consultation period to allow early review of the material. The 28-day consultation period commenced on 27 January 2026. The explanatory material released with the consultation provides more detail on how the method intends to operate and highlights key issues for feedback during consultation.
Consultation documents
Explanatory Material for the ACCU Scheme IFLM method [PDF 1.1MB]
Explanatory Material for the ACCU Scheme IFLM method [DOCX 818KB]
Detailed outline of the Integrated Farm and Land Management Methodology Determination 2026 [PDF 1.9MB]
Detailed outline of the Integrated Farm and Land Management Methodology Determination 2026 [DOCX 7.2MB]
Draft Explanatory Statement - Integrated Farm and Land Management Methodology Determination 2026 [PDF 582KB]
Draft Explanatory Statement - Integrated Farm and Land Management Methodology Determination 2026 [DOCX 193KB]
Have Your Say
To have your say:
Familiarise yourself with the:
detailed method outline
explanatory statement
explanatory material and
request for confidential submission form.
Complete our survey.
Submit your feedback by 11:59pm AEDT on Monday, 23 February 2026.
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