Climate Active: Carbon offsets

Climate Active is an Australian Government program that drives voluntary climate action by Australian businesses. The brand represents Australia’s collective effort to measure, reduce, and offset carbon emissions to lessen our negative impact on the environment. Climate Active is empowering Australians to take climate action, now and for the future.

An offset unit, also referred to as a carbon credit, is a financial product which is traded and sold on the carbon market. Offset units are issued to individuals or businesses who run eligible carbon abatement projects under an offset scheme.

Learn more about carbon offsets, how offsetting works and what you can do to support this with your projects.