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Participating in the Emissions Reduction Fund – A guide to the capture and combustion of landfill gas method
This guide provides an introduction to conducting a landfill gas project using the Carbon Farming (Capture and Combustion of Methane in landfill gas from Legacy Waste) Methodology Determination 2012 and the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) (Capture and Combustion of Methane in Landfill Gas from Legacy Waste: Upgrade projects) Methodology Determination 2012 (the method). Methods set out the rules for conducting activities under the Emissions Reduction Fund to earn ACCUs.
The guide is one of a set of guides called Participating in the Emissions Reduction Fund. One guide, Getting Started, provides an overview of the Emissions Reduction Fund – how it works and what you need to know to get started. The guide Claiming and selling ACCUs, provides more detail about reporting and auditing requirements as well as auctions, contracts with the Commonwealth Government and selling your ACCUs. Other guides in the set are like this one: designed to provide a summary to help you read individual methods.
Together, the guides will help you understand what is involved in conducting an Emissions Reduction Fund project from start to end. The guides are complementary to the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011, the associated legislative rules, approved methods and their explanatory statements, but do not replace them. They have been prepared by the Clean Energy Regulator, an independent Australian statutory authority responsible for administering legislation to reduce carbon emissions and increase the use of clean energy.