What the Code Is
Australian Integrated Carbon is a founding signatory to the Australian Carbon Industry Code of Conduct, a voluntary code administered by the Carbon Market Institute that sets minimum standards for carbon project developers operating in Australia.
The Code exists to protect landholders, maintain the integrity of the carbon market, and ensure that all parties, including Native Title Holders, land managers, and project owners, are treated fairly and transparently throughout the carbon project process.
You can read more about the Code at: carbonmarketinstitute.org/code
What It Means for You
By signing up with AiCarbon, you are working with a developer who has publicly committed to the following standards:
Transparency
We provide clear, realistic financial models regarding ACCU generation timelines and price expectations. We do not guarantee outcomes we cannot deliver. Our financial modelling is based on verifiable data and conservative assumptions.
Landholder-First Approach
Your carbon project is designed to complement your primary agricultural enterprise, not compromise it. We will never recommend a method or a project structure that undermines your core farming operation. Your land. Your terms. Our job is to make the project work around your life, not the other way around.
Regulatory Compliance
All of our projects are developed and managed in strict accordance with the Clean Energy Regulator’s requirements. We uphold the highest standards of compliance, not just because we’re required to, but because our client landholders’ returns depend on project integrity. A project that isn’t properly managed is a project that doesn’t generate ACCUs.
Ethical Advice
We supply honest, data-backed advice. We will tell you if your land isn’t suited to carbon farming. We will not sign you up to a project just to collect a fee if we don’t believe it will deliver genuine benefit to you. Our reputation is built project by project, landholder by landholder.
A Note on the Carbon Market
The Australian carbon market has attracted its share of controversy in recent years. Questions about the integrity of certain projects, the conduct of some developers, and the accuracy of carbon accounting are legitimate, and they have contributed to public and landholder scepticism.
We take those concerns seriously. That’s why our involvement in the Australian Carbon Industry Code of Conduct, and our commitment to the CER’s audit and compliance framework, is not just a marketing box to tick. It is the foundation of how we operate. We want the carbon market to be trustworthy, because an untrustworthy ACCU scheme and market ultimately hurts the landholders who participate in them.
