Before you’re able to purchase the carbon offset units in your order, we need to run some checks and balances. Carbon market participants in Australia who provide financial advice, trade, or make and operate and market in certain types of carbon credit units, or derivatives of these units, require an Australian financial services license (AFSL).

This online carbon offset platform is a service provided by Tasman Environmental Markets Australia Pty Ltd (TEM). TEM is authorised to provide financial services to wholesale clients (within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001). We do not currently provide financial services to retail clients.

Most financial services provided by Tasman Environmental Markets Australia Pty Ltd are also designated services under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act 2006. Under the provisions of this Act, Tasman Environmental Markets Pty Limited is obliged to verify the identity of its clients.

TEM is also a signatory to the Australian Carbon Industry Code of Conduct (the Code). The code promotes best practice carbon market integrity, transparency, and accountability for Australian consumers. As a signatory to the Code, TEM has agreed to conduct business in line with the Code requirements.

For more information, please refer to our Terms of Service.

Your purchase goes to the procurement of fully verified and independently audited carbon offset projects. TEM’s operational, due-diligence, risk management and marketing costs are also included in the list price. By purchasing from these projects, you are mobilising capital to support the project’s ongoing operations and benefits, alongside of ensuring measurable emissions reductions and avoidance.

You may find a difference between the cost of projects listed on this site and the average prices listed on the wholesale carbon market/s. That’s because this platform offers projects where we have gone the extra mile to ensure their integrity and deliver you the end-to-end service that others won’t. Our pricing is fully inclusive of the end-to-end services to ensure integrity, including:

• The cost to source, deliver and/or procure projects – Sourcing, purchasing and holding carbon units.
• TEM’s proprietary due diligence and risk management for each project – Put simply, we do the work to limit the chance that you will support a project that doesn’t deliver measurable and long-term carbon abatement.
• Our retirement process – Following each purchase, every carbon offset purchased on TEM Online can be transparently traced to a retired carbon unit listed on an independent registry.

Once we’ve received your payment, we will:

• Send you content and copy relating to the projects you’re supporting. Expect this within 1x business day of your purchase!
• Add your company to our customer page. This will show: the projects you have supported and the volume of offsets per project. We won’t share any financial info.
• Retire the offsets you have purchased. If you choose a company-specific retirement certificate, we’ll retire your offsets in your name following payment and send you the certificate then. If you DO NOT require a company-specific retirement certificate, evidence of retirement will be added to your profile on this website within a month from payment. Note: you will need a company-specific retirement certificate for Climate Active and other certification purposes.
  • The evidence of retirement will include: the listing on each registry that relates to the offsets you have purchased, a TEM-branded retirement certificate, and a link to the customer page (point 2 above).
• Keep you updated on new projects as they’re added to TEM Online. Of course – you can choose to opt out of those emails!