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Carbon Farming Approved Adviser Directory

Approved Advisers are qualified professionals who can help landholders with advice on carbon farming and the Land Restoration Fund (LRF).

About the Land Restoration Fund’s Approved Adviser Program

The Approved Adviser Program is a network of qualified professionals who can help you to decide if carbon and other environmental market opportunities are right for their land and business. 

Advisers complete LRF-specific training before being added to the Approved Adviser Directory. You can contact an adviser directly for help with:

• the opportunities and implications of undertaking a carbon farming project
• the underpinning regulatory framework and approved methods of generating carbon credits in Australia
• the LRF and co-benefits
• carbon and other environmental markets
• evaluating the carbon and biodiversity potential of a property
• accessing and interpreting site-specific information including:
  • land tenure restrictions and requirements
  • obligations for commitment of land in both area and time
  • application of potential methods
  • potential co-benefits
• legal and financial considerations of undertaking a carbon farming project. 

Helpful Resources 

• Landholder guidance: A checklist for partnering on carbon farming projects is a step-by-step resource for landholders on the different stages of developing and delivering a carbon farming project, in partnership with a third party. 
• Information for landholders provides information and resources about carbon farming including questions to ask advisers to make sure you get the right information for your property.

Approved Advisers are from the following professional groups and need to have the requirements listed below:

• Solicitors: Must have a valid practising certificate and experience providing commercial legal advice to landholders.
• Accountants: Must hold full membership as a Chartered Accountant, Certified Practising Accountant, or Institute of Public Accountants membership, with experience in business accounting advice for landholders.
• Carbon project developers: Must be a signatory to the Australian Carbon Industry Code of Conduct and have experience as a carbon farming project developer.
• Environmental consultants: Must hold relevant qualifications and membership with an industry association, with experience providing environmental advice to landholders.
• Agribusiness advisers: Includes agronomists, environmental planners, economists and other consultants with experience advising landholders.

Become an Approved Adviser

Becoming an Approved Adviser provides an opportunity to use your professional industry expertise to support landholders to better understand opportunities associated with carbon farming. 

It does not cost anything to apply to be an Approved Adviser.  

Apply here.

If you are an Approved Adviser and need to update the information on the Directory, or be removed from the Directory, please contact ApprovedAdvisers@detsi.qld.gov.au. 

Carbon Farming Advice Scheme 

The Carbon Farming Advice Scheme (CFAS) is currently closed. The Scheme offered financial assistance to farmers and other landholders to pay for expert advice from an Approved Adviser on the potential for carbon farming on their property. 

Any future rounds of the Scheme or other opportunities available through the Queensland Government will be advertised via the LRF mailing list.