5a6b7580-8903-4a3d-a98d-f3e31be92361 urn:uuid en UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2023-08-24T00:52:41 creation ISO 19115 2016 Emissions Reduction Fund Environmental Data 2023 5a6b7580-8903-4a3d-a98d-f3e31be92361 The [Emissions Reduction Fund](https://www.industry.gov.au/funding-and-incentives/emissions-reduction-fund) (ERF) creates a financial incentive for Australian businesses to adopt smarter practices to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Participants can earn carbon credits by undertaking a project using an approved ERF method, which sets out the rules for the activity. These methods ensure that emissions reductions are genuine - that they are both real and additional to business as usual operations. ERF environmental data layers are provided to assist proponents’ participation in the ERF. This page provides access to data layers that can be used under a number of agricultural and vegetation methods to assist proponents’ implementation of these land sector methods. __Specified regions for subsection 20AB(5)__ This links to spatial data defining regions applicable to potential plantation forestry and farm forestry projects under the Emissions Reduction Fund. Additional Emissions Reduction Fund data can be found at https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/emissions-reduction-fund-environmental-data SA0003560: Australia 137.13828 137.13828 -28.61389 -28.61389 Emissions Reduction Fund Environment Environmental Management FullCAM Reforestation farming forest cover landcover methods Specified regions for subsection 20AB(5) documentDigital For subsection 20AB(5) of the [Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Rule 2015](https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2023C00452), tree planting in higher rainfall areas within regions specified on these maps is unlikely to have a material adverse impact on water availability. A 'higher rainfall area' is an area that receives more than 600 millimetres long-term average annual rainfall according to the [CFI rainfall map](https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-b46c29a4-cc80-4bde-b538-51013dea4dcb/distribution/dist-dga-beb93add-1f5b-42a0-9a7e-d174d0139435/details?q=emissions%20reduction%20fund). ZIP