The Clean Energy Regulator is confident its schemes will deliver 57 million tonnes of abatement in 2021, and says a huge drop in accredited new large-scale clean energy capacity is temporary.
Methane-to-electricity specialist EDL has received a new allocation of 202,994 carbon credits for capturing coal mine methane at Anglo American's Queensland operations and using it to generate electricity.
One of Australia's largest carbon offsets companies has won a federal grant to investigate the drought resilience benefits of landscape-based activities that store carbon.
Businesses will find it much quicker and cheaper to source Australian carbon credits, under federal plans for a new online exchange that could eventually handle other carbon unit trades.
There are a large number of new solar and wind farms in the pipeline, plenty more ERF projects on the way, and a "surge in demand" for the certificates and credits they create, according to new data from the Clean Energy Regulator.
Two carbon offset businesses are in dispute over entitlements to carbon credits from a pair of vegetation regeneration projects that have changed hands several times.
ISPT, which manages a $19 billion property portfolio for industry super funds, has become carbon neutral without using cheap international carbon credits, and plans to create and sell its own offsets.