An ACCU is a financial instrument awarded to an eligible carbon project. It represents the avoidance or removal of one tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent from either greenhouse gas emission reductions or carbon sequestration.

It is only possible to trade ACCUs in Australia. The Australian government has been the major buyer of carbon credits in recent years; they can also be sold through a number of trading houses.

Some of our mallee tree plantations are part of registered projects where carbon is sequestered. We receive ACCUs for this sequestered carbon, which are on-sold to companies seeking to offset their carbon emissions.

These credits can either be sold, or some or all of them can be retained as part of our Life Cycle Assessment analysis offsets.