The Indigenous Carbon Industry Network (ICIN) team platformed Indigenous carbon projects through an interactive booth at the 2026 Australasian Emissions Reduction (AER) Summit, held in Tarndanya (Adelaide), on Kaurna Country.
The timing of the conference coincided with several big policy changes affecting Australia’s carbon market, leading to important knowledge sharing among ICIN members attending. This included legislative changes supported by ICIN in the Senate Inquiry into the Carbon Credits and Other Legislation Amendment (Integrity and Transparency) Bill 2026, which ICIN contributed to through member consultations and submissions.
The future of voluntary carbon markets in Australia was raised with the government’s Climate Active carbon neutral certification program currently under reform and slated to close. ICIN’s submission to the review of the Climate Active program highlighted how it was a key driver for businesses to reduce their carbon footprint and enabled better recognition of the economic value of Indigenous carbon credits.
ICIN Full Member Arnhem Land Fire Abatement (ALFA) NT joined the panel ‘Beyond Climate Active: Building the Next Generation Voluntary Carbon Market’, with its Chief Commercial Officer Adrian Enright raising implications of the scheme’s closure and hopes for a new strengthened way forward for Australia’s voluntary carbon market. He explained that Indigenous carbon credits typically attract premiums 25-50% above spot markets and that the majority of their sales were driven by the voluntary market via Climate Active certification.
Associate Member NAILSMA CEO Barry Hunter presented in the panel ‘Hope is not a Strategy - Nature Beyond Markets’, where he led discussions on the opportunities for Indigenous leadership within the newly formed Nature Repair Market.
ICIN thanks the Carbon Market Institute (CMI) for the invitation to host a booth in the exhibition hall. The ICIN booth displayed our resources, promoted the Savanna Fire Forum and become a meeting spot for ICIN’s members including Tiwi Resources, ALFA NT, NAILSMA and the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation (ILSC), as well as key partners, The Nature Conservancy Australia, the Clean Energy Regulator and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW).
