At the time this manual was prepared, there were 17 relevant agriculture-related methodologies available for the Emissions Reduction Fund:

Agriculture

• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in beef cattle through feeding nitrate containing supplements method

• Fertiliser use efficiency in irrigated cotton method

• Beef cattle herd management method

• Animal effluent management method

• Estimating sequestration of carbon in soil using default values method

• Measurement of soil carbon sequestration in agricultural systems method

• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in milking cows through feeding dietary additives method

Vegetation management

• Savanna fire management - emissions avoidance method

• Plantation forestry method Reforestation and afforestation 2.0 method

• Measurement based methods for new farm forestry plantations method

• Designated Verified Carbon Standard projects method

• Avoided clearing of native regrowth method

• Avoided deforestation 1.1 method

• Human-induced regeneration of a permanent even-aged native forest 1.1 method

• Native forest from managed regrowth method

• Reforestation by Environmental or Mallee Plantings - FullCAM method

• Savanna fire management - sequestration and emissions avoidance method

The current list of these and all previous methods can be accessed here. A list of all the closed methods is available here.

Table 5.1 summarises information on the number of projects for each methodology and the number of ACCUs issued at Feb 1, 2021.

Please note that several of the above methodologies have changed since first introduced, with a number of older itinerations, now closed, still included in the table below. A list of closed methods can be accessed here.

Source: ERF Register

Note: The ERF also includes methodologies for use in the waste sector. Those methodologies are not included in this table and are not covered in this manual.