If you are a landholder in NSW, you may be eligible for a NSW Government grant to set up a carbon planting project.

Investing $5 million in Living Carbon grants to assist eligible applicants in delivering carbon abatement through planting projects in 3 regions in NSW:  

• the Riverina Local Land Services region
• the North Coast Local Land Services region
• the MidCoast Local Government Area.

Note: Applications are now open for: 

• the Riverina Local Land Services region 
• the MidCoast Local Government Area 

Successful applicants will receive up to $200,000 of grant funding, and the landholder is expected to commit funding and/or in-kind contributions to complete the project.  

Application forms

Riverina region

MidCoast LGA

Applications for the North Coast Local Land Service region will open in the coming weeks.

Eligibility

You must be:

• a private landlord
• an aboriginal organisation or Traditional Owner group that owns or has legal right to the land

A suitable project would:

• plant between 10 and 200 hectares of appropriate species on your land  
• plant with the aim of revegetating habitat for threatened or iconic species endemic to your area
• deliver on and comply with all Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCU) Scheme and Accounting for Nature (AfN) method requirements, beyond the lifetime of your grant.