AHG Land Transport Emissions Reduction (Revoked)

AHG Land Transport Emissions Reduction is a transport efficiency project registered in April 2015. Unlike traditional land-based carbon projects that sequester carbon in vegetation or soil, this project focused on avoiding emissions from a fleet of aggregated land vehicles. Because the project involves mobile assets rather than a fixed property, it does not have a specific location, area size, or associated environmental metrics like rainfall or soil type. Instead, it operated across the logistical and dealership networks of its proponent, Automotive Holdings Group Limited (AHG), which was Australia's largest automotive retailer before being acquired by Eagers Automotive.

The project utilized the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative, Land and Sea Transport) Methodology Determination 2015. This methodology credits activities that reduce the emissions intensity of transport services. For a fleet operator like AHG, this likely involved changing operational practices to improve fuel efficiency, grouping vehicles to optimize logistics, or upgrading to more efficient vehicle models.

The project was voluntarily revoked under Section 30 of the CFI Rule in May 2018, three years after registration. Despite this early revocation, the project's carbon abatement contract (CAC688106) is listed as completed as of August 2023. This suggests that while the project is no longer active, it may have fulfilled its specific contractual delivery obligations to the Australian Government during its brief operation. Greenbank Australia Pty Ltd participated as an aggregator or agent, facilitating the complex task of bundling emissions reductions from numerous individual vehicles into tradeable carbon credits.