Carbon Credits Savanna Fire Methodology Determination 2026
Summary
The Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water has issued the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Savanna Fire Management—Emissions Avoidance) Methodology Determination 2026, establishing a new framework for calculating and verifying carbon credits generated through savanna fire management. This methodology determination applies to project proponents seeking to generate Australian Carbon Credit Units through modified fire management practices in savanna landscapes. The instrument defines key parameters including fire seasons, baseline periods, and project area requirements for eligibility.
What changed
The Carbon Credits Savanna Fire Methodology Determination 2026 introduces updated technical requirements for calculating and verifying emissions avoidance from savanna fire management under Australia's Carbon Farming Initiative. The determination establishes definitions for fire seasons, baseline periods, and project area classifications, along with requirements for vegetation fuel types and monitoring obligations.
Project proponents and land managers engaged in savanna fire management carbon projects should review the new methodology parameters to ensure ongoing compliance. Entities considering new projects must align their proposed activities with the determination's eligibility criteria, including location requirements within high or low rainfall zones and maintenance of specified vegetation fuel types.
What to do next
- Determine eligibility for savanna fire management carbon credit projects
- Review new methodology requirements against existing project registrations
- Update monitoring and reporting systems to comply with new parameters
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Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Savanna Fire Management—Emissions Avoidance) Methodology Determination 2026
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- Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Latest version F2026L00430 10 April 2026
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- Part 1—Preliminary
- 1 Name
- 2 Commencement
- 3 Authority
- 4 Schedules
- 5 Duration
- 6 Definitions
- 7 Meaning of fire season, early dry season and late dry season
- 8 Meaning of baseline period
- 9 Meaning of original project area and subdivided project area
- 10 Updates to external documents as in force from time to time
- 11 Factors and parameters from external sources
- Part 2—Savanna emissions avoidance projects
- 12 Savanna emissions avoidance projects
- Part 3—Project requirements
- Division 1—General
- 13 Operation of this Part
- Division 2—Project area
- 14 Requirement to be in high or low rainfall zone
- 15 Requirement to maintain vegetation fuel types
- 16 Requirement to manage relevant weed species
- 17 Project area not to contain previously removed areas
- Division 3—Project activity
- 18 Requirement to undertake savanna fire management
- Division 4—Project management plan
- 19 Requirement to prepare project management plan
- 20 Updating or revising project management plan
- Division 5—Vegetation fuel type map
- 21 Requirement to create and validate vegetation fuel type map
- 22 Revising vegetation fuel type map
- 23 Vegetation fuel type map for subdivided project area
- Division 6—Newness and additionality
- 24 Requirement in lieu of newness requirement
- 25 Requirement in lieu of regulatory additionality requirement
- Division 7—Projects that include transferring project areas
- 26 Simplified outline of this Division
- 27 Meaning of transferring project area and related definitions
- 28 Requirements for projects with transferring project areas
- 29 Crediting periods
- 30 Vegetation fuel type map for transferring project area
- Division 8—Project applications
- 31 Information to include in section 22, 29 and 128 applications
- Part 4—Net abatement amount
- Division 1—Preliminary
- 32 Operation of this Part
- 33 Simplified outline of this Part
- 34 Use of SavCAM
- 35 Overview of gases accounted for in abatement calculations
- Division 2—Calculation of net abatement amount
- 36 The net abatement amount, A
- Part 5—Reporting, record-keeping, monitoring and notification requirements
- Division 1—Offsets report requirements
- 37 Operation of this Division
- 38 Information that must be included in offsets reports
- Division 2—Record-keeping requirements
- 39 Operation of this Division
- 40 Record-keeping requirements
- Division 3— Monitoring requirements
- 41 Operation of this Division
- 42 Monitoring requirements
- Division 4—Notification requirements
- 43 Operation of this Division
- 44 Notification requirements
- Part 6—Partial reporting
- 45 Partial reporting
- Schedule 1—Emissions avoidance—calculation of adjusted contribution to net abatement amount for a calendar year
- Division 1—Preliminary
- 1 Simplified outline of this Schedule
- Division 2— Calculations
- 2 Calculation of adjusted contribution to net abatement amount from emissions avoidance for a calendar year, AEA,adj
- 3 The previous year’s uncertainty buffer, BU,Prev
- 4 The contribution to the net abatement amount from emissions avoidance for a calendar year, AEA
- 5 The uncertainty buffer cap for a calendar year, BU,Cap
- 6 Mean annual baseline fire emissions
- Division 3— Adjustments to calculations
- 7 Adjustments resulting from project area spanning rainfall zones
- 8 Adjustments resulting from lack of fire activity
- 9 Adjustments resulting from subdivided project areas
- Schedule 2—Revocations
- Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Savanna Fire Management—Emissions Avoidance) Methodology Determination 2018
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