Supply Fund and credit purchasing

The Supply Fund buys credits based on demand from development and infrastructure projects. Credits are then sold to public or private sector proponents who need credits to offset the biodiversity impacts of their projects, or other buyers who may seek credits for philanthropic or strategic purposes.

The Supply Fund is operated by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water with the aim of making credits easier to sell and buy, improving the functioning of the biodiversity market. The department will apply fair, transparent and ethical processes and decision-making when buying and selling credits through the Supply Fund.

Biodiversity credits are generated through Biodiversity Stewardship Agreements. The sale of credits provides funding for landholders to improve the management of pests, weeds and fire and restore habitat. To generate credits, you can use our Stewardship Expression of Interest (EOI).

Operating Protocol

The Operating Protocol document sets out how the Supply Fund operates. It covers governance, ways to identify demand and supply, methods for buying and selling credits, and monitoring and reporting.

Download: Biodiversity Credits Supply Fund - Operating Protocol

Supply Fund market update

The Supply Fund market update covers key outcomes from the Supply Fund's reverse auctions, how auctions are run, the Supply Fund's role in the market, and information on credits approved for purchase by the Supply Fund. This is part of regular reporting to support development of the biodiversity credits market and promote understanding of the Supply Fund.

Download: Biodiversity Credits Supply Fund market update

Reverse auctions are used to buy credits on a competitive basis through the Supply Fund. Bids for the current reverse auction open on Monday 29 April 2024 and close at 5 pm AEST Monday 13 May 2024.

This reverse auction seeks credits that have been issued and are available for purchase by June 2024 in the Cumberland IBRA sub-region. We are seeking bids for the following ecosystem credit types:

• Cumberland Plain Woodland in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
• River-Flat Eucalypt Forest on Coastal Floodplains of the New South Wales North Coast, Sydney Basin and South East Corner Bioregions
• Cooks River/Castlereagh Ironbark Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion
• Shale Sandstone Transition Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion

To make a bid to sell credits through this reverse auction, request a Participant's Guide and Bid Form.

Request Participant's Guide and Bid Form

If this button does not work for you, please request the Participant's Guide and Bid Form directly via [email protected]

To receive the Participant's Guide and Bid Form immediately, please type 'Request for Participant's Guide and Bid Form information pack' in the Subject line of your email.

Key dates for current reverse auction

Bids open Monday 29 April 2024

Bids close 5:00 pm Monday 13 May 2024

Auction results published by Friday 31 May 2024

Notice of future reverse auctions will be announced via this webpage.

The latest reverse auction closed on 6 March 2024 and received 83 bids covering more than 74,000 credits.

Bids were evaluated in accordance with the published auction documentation and more than 11,000 credits have been approved for purchase, totalling around $20 million, covering:

• Coastal Upland Swamp
• Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
• Cumberland Plain Woodland
• Freshwater Wetlands on Coastal Floodplains
• Hunter Lowland Redgum Forest
• Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
• Illawarra Subtropical Rainforest
• Inland Riverine Forests
• Littoral Rainforest
• Montane Bogs and Fens
• North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
• Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
• North-west Floodplain Woodlands
• South-east Dry Sclerophyll Forests
• Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
• Subalpine Woodlands
• Subtropical Coastal Floodplain Forest
• Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest
• Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
• Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest
• Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
• Western Peneplain Woodlands
• Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
• White Box – Yellow Box – Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland
• threatened plants: hoary sunray, netted bottle brush, silky swainson-pea, small purple-pea and Tetratheca glandulosa
• threatened animals: barking owl, brush-tailed phascogale, common planigale, eastern cave bat, eastern pygmy possum, greater glider, green and golden bell frog, green-thighed frog, large bent-winged bat, large-eared pied bat, long-nosed potoroo, masked owl, parma wallaby, pink-tailed legless lizard, powerful owl, red-crowned toadlet, regent honeyeater, rufous bettong, squirrel glider, wallum froglet.

The Taskforce provides feedback on credits not being purchased, and offers opportunities to promote credits for sale through the Biodiversity Credits Catalogue.