Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Savanna Fire Management—Sequestration and Emissions Avoidance) Methodology Determination 2026
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This instrument accounts for carbon abatement from undertaking savanna fire management. Carbon abatement is achieved through the avoidance of emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by sequestering carbon in living biomass and dead organic matter in savannas.
A project covered by this instrument is a sequestration offsets project, and as such is subject to the obligations under the Act that relate to the permanence period.
To ascertain the net abatement amount in relation to a reporting period for a savanna sequestration project, the project proponent must calculate the adjusted contributions from emissions avoidance and from sequestration of carbon each calendar year that ends during the reporting period and add these together. These calculations must be performed using SavCAM.
If the project has 2 or more project areas, adjusted contributions to the net abatement amount must be calculated separately for each project area and added together.
When calculating the contribution to the net abatement amount from emissions avoidance, SavCAM calculations account for emissions for all fuel classes (that is, grass fuel, fine fuel, coarse fuel, and heavy fuel and the fire impacted proportion of living biomass). In contrast, when calculating the contribution to the net abatement amount from sequestration, SavCAM calculations account for living biomass and dead organic matter that consists of coarse fuel and heavy fuel.