Turn the raw legal text into a practical explanation grounded in Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Reducing Methane Emissions from Landfill Gas) Methodology Determination 2025.
A landfill gas capture and destruction project must, at all times, be a project type mentioned in column 1 and a project type mentioned in column 2 of the following table. A project that is a project type is classified as that project type, if the classification occurs in accordance with section 16.
Project types
Column 1 Column 2
Project types—biomethane status Project types—safeguard status
non-biomethane project
biomethane conversion and displacement project
biomethane displacement only project
restarting biomethane displacement only project - safeguard LFG project
non-safeguard LFG project
A project classified as a restarting biomethane displacement only project (see column 1 of the table in subsection (1)) must not subsequently be classified as any other project type in column 1.