Analysis & Commentary - Carbon Market Insights
Data-backed trends, project analysis and perspectives on Australia’s carbon sector
Carbon market insights: close to 2 million credits shared amongst 90 projects
Carbon Eyes In the Loop. August saw a number of developments across the Australian carbon market, most notably the publication of the final Bill to bring about major reforms to the ACCU scheme. We go through the proposed changes, and how they differ from the earlier draft Bill.
Carbon market insights: the month in review
Carbon Eyes In the Loop. July was a busy month for developments across the Australian carbon market, from fresh controversy about INFM - the new method for managing public native forests - to a proposed cap on credited abatement at soil carbon projects.
Soil carbon at scale
How three projects account for more than half the method’s ACCU issuance, and how only 53 have been issued with carbon credits so far.
What we saw in carbon markets this month
Carbon Eyes In the Loop. June saw a range of developments across the Australian Carbon market from record ACCU issuance to an announcement of a new method for conserving native forests. Read more…
Carbon market insights: the month in review
Carbon Eyes In the Loop. May saw us talking about the growing intersection between ACCU projects and the Nature Repair Market, the debate surrounding Tasmania's Rushy Lagoon property and other stories. Read more…
What the carbon market revealed this month
Carbon Eyes In the Loop. April saw a busy period across the Australian carbon market, with major ACCU issuances, new project registrations, annual Safeguard compliance data release and continued movement across the method pipeline.
A visualisation of the growth of Australia’s carbon project landscape.
This time lapse video from 2012 to today charts the growth of Australia's ACCU scheme.
In total 2923 ACCU projects have been registered with 2533 of these still active, and roughly one third of these having been awarded credits.
April 26: Investors backing the ACCU scheme with real money
Carbon Eyes Curiosity: quick takes from the latest ACCU project register update.
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Plantation and environmental plantings ACCU areas up140%
Land footprint increases sharply across ACCU forestry methods
In a Quantum Commodity Intelligence interview, Carbon Eyes CEO Lionel Waker explains why forestry projects under Australia’s ACCU scheme grew 140% in land area in 2025.
