The guidelines provide organisations with information on measuring their carbon footprint, monitoring and reducing emissions and purchasing and cancelling eligible carbon offsets.

The program will be administered by the Australian Carbon Trust and organisations will need to have their certification applications to the Trust independently verified.

Certified organisations will be required to pay an annual certification fee and must submit an annual report and public disclosure summary to the Trust. They must also obtain independent verification of these documents every two years.

Here is more information on the guidelines.

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