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.

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
• North Coast LLS region

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.