our mission is to maximise the contribution of land and vegetation-based carbon storage to reducing and absorbing greenhouse gas emissions, while being guided by the principles of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.

Since its formation in 2001, The Carbon Pool group of companies has built their business around these key principles, working with our key stakeholders from a platform of innovation, leadership and collaboration.

Our primary role is to run a carbon pool, trade in carbon credits and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.

If you or your company is committed to making real progress and being recognised as a leader on global warming issues within your community or industry sector, contact us to discuss how.

Minding the Carbon Store is an innovative project that has saved 12,000 hectares of native Australian vegetation in Queensland frombeing cleared and burnt. As a result, around 1,250,000 tonnes CO2 greenhouse gas emissions were avoided in an independently verified greenhouse gas abatement project. This equates roughlywith taking 300,000 vehicles off the road for a year.

Minding the Carbon Store effectively enabled Rio Tinto Aluminium to buy stored carbon from Queensland farmers who committed to keep forests on their land intact. This innovative and environmentally responsible company can then use the resulting carbon credits purchased through The Carbon Pool to offset their own greenhouse gas emissions. Several Queensland landowners benefited from the very significant payments for Carbon Rights to their forests. Minding the Carbon Store is Australia’s largest verified greenhouse gas abatement project for emission reductions in a single year. It was supported enthusiastically by farmers, farmer organisations, agribusiness consultants, the Queensland and Australian governments, environment groups and business.

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