Submission to the Climate Change Authority's 2026 review of the ACCU scheme
The submission argues the need for an expanded, resourced role for regional NRM plans in the ACCU scheme to reduce project risk and increase co-benefits. The submission identifies key barriers to method development, including price, complexity and a lack of progress on stacking seemingly compatible methods, and argues for ‘fewer, simpler, better methods’ that can generate co-benefits for communities, the environment and agriculture. Furthermore, it recommends market reforms, such as requiring safeguard-covered facilities to purchase a proportion of ACCUs with verified public-good co-benefits to incentivise higher-value abatement.
