Deadline: 23-Dec-2024
The Australian Government is providing funding to help incorporate voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions estimates and reporting ‘standards’ into GHG calculators and accounting tools.
Aims and Objectives
- This program aims to contribute to GHG accounting tools and calculators delivering more consistent, robust estimates for users such as producers and farm advisers. Increasing the use of GHG accounting tools and calculators will help increase the number of producers who know and understand the net emissions from their business. It is also expected to benefit those businesses along the supply chain and financial institutions that are looking for farm-level emissions data.
- The program’s primary objectives are to:
- Support adoption and consistent incorporation of forthcoming standards into third-party GHG accounting tools and calculators.
- While the standards are being developed, support adoption and consistent incorporation of the GAF Tools into third-party GHG accounting tools and calculators.
- Provide a product that is freely available to third-party GHG accounting tool and calculator providers, encapsulates as many commodities as possible, and is suitable for mixed farming enterprises.
- Provide a product that is maintained and updated regularly until June 2028 to ensure it aligns with the standards once available and the GAF tools in the meantime.
- Improve producer and farm adviser access to GHG accounting tools to increase the proportion of producers that know and understand their business’s net emissions profile.
Funding Information
- The funding available through the subsequent grant process (Stage 2) will not exceed $6.8 million over the term of the grant, ending in June 2028.
Eligibility Criteria
- The department will exclude an EOI from further consideration if the department considers that the respondent does not comply with one or more of the following eligibility criteria. To be eligible, you and your consortium members (if applicable) must:
- have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- be registered for the Goods and Services Tax (GST)
- not be included on the National Redress Scheme’s website on the list of ‘Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme’
- not be included on the Workplace Gender Equality Agency website on the non-compliant list
- be one of the following entities
- an entity, incorporated in Australia
- a company limited by guarantee
- an incorporated association
- a co-operative
- a partnership
- a joint (consortia) application with a lead organisation
For more information, visit Australian Government.