You can sponsor a wide range of environmental projects, from local initiatives to larger, national efforts focused on carbon reduction and sustainability. 

Sponsoring projects not only contributes to a healthier planet by helping remove unavoidable emissions from the atmosphere but also boosts your business's credentials, enhancing your brand image and appeal to eco-conscious consumers.

You have the freedom to choose projects that align with your business values. We're here to advise and provide options that match your preferences and goals.

Our website currently showcases the projects we work closely with; however, if your business already sponsors projects outside of the ones we offer, you can email these to us. We will then upload these to your profile, marking Stage 4 as achieved in your Emissions Reduction Plan. 

We only support official carbon credit unit projects for Stage 4, such as Australian Carbon Credit Units and recognised international carbon credit programs. 

If you have donated money to support environmental causes that aren’t official carbon credit unit projects, these can be added as actions in Stage 2.

An ACCU is an Australian carbon credit unit.

An ACCU is like a gold star for helping the environment in Australia. Each ACCU means one tonne less of nasty greenhouse gases in the air. You can earn ACCUs by doing good stuff like planting trees or managing waste better. They're like a pat on the back for businesses who still have some emissions from things like driving or flying for work. 

When a business gets or supports ACCUs, it's like they're balancing out these emissions. The Australian Government keeps an eye on these ACCUs (via Australian Government Clean Energy Regulator ) to make sure everything's fair and square. 

At ERC Australia, we're all about these ACCUs in Stage 4 of our program, where we support projects that really make a difference in cleaning up the air. These projects are super strict and top-notch in quality!

Yes – these are the only projects we support. Your sponsorship is injected back into the local economy, creating regional jobs and supporting local innovation.

All of our projects are regulated and monitored by the Commonwealth Government’s Clean Energy Regulator.

ERC Australia sources projects from a range of sellers. Price per tonne is determined by the seller based on supply and demand. Pricing has been increasing as more businesses participate in climate action. 

ERC Australia takes the market price and applies GST and a small administration fee. Because we only support high quality Australian projects, the pricing tends to be higher as the demand for these projects is higher.

To balance this, our program only requires relatively small contributions by members, which add together to support State and National targets.

Supporting Australian projects also means supporting local jobs, most of which are in regional areas. 

Stage 4 of our program requires sponsoring projects that remove your unavoidable emissions, such as transport, waste and travel. This helps to mitigate a members climate impact whilst they are implementing actions to reduce and avoid emissions. It also creates increased demand for these projects, which are fundamental to achieving Australia's net zero targets.  

Payment covers the cost of procuring the selected volume of tonnes for your chosen project (which ultimately goes back to the project owner), GST and an administration fee for ERC Australia.

All projects are administered by the rules of the Clean Energy Regulator. ERC Australia ensures the volume sponsored is transacted on the CER registry and officially "retired" to complete the offset process.