Safeguard Mechanism · 2024–25

Australia's largest industrial emitters, tracked against baseline.

233 facilities — mines, smelters, LNG plants, steelworks, cement factories — are covered by the Safeguard Mechanism. Each must keep emissions below an annual baseline or account for the difference. National figures below; browse individual facility reports underneath. Data sourced from the Clean Energy Regulator, published 15 April 2026.

132.8 Mt
covered emissions, 2024–25 (2.3% less than the prior year)
126.2 Mt
total baselines, 2024–25 (7.3% less than the prior year)
13.4 M
units surrendered (10.8M ACCUs + 2.6M SMCs)
6.7 M
Safeguard Mechanism credits (SMCs) issued
How the Safeguard Mechanism works. Australia's largest industrial emitters — those releasing more than 100,000 tonnes of CO₂-equivalent per year — must keep their net emissions below an annual baseline. That baseline steps down each year. When a facility's net emissions exceed its baseline, the responsible emitter must either reduce on-site emissions or surrender carbon credits (ACCUs or SMCs) to cover the difference — both are legitimate compliance paths under the legislated scheme. Facilities that come in under their baseline may earn SMCs, which can be sold to other facilities needing to cover a shortfall.
All 233 covered facilities, A–Z
1. Solid Waste Services - Lucas Heights 1. Solid Waste Services - MRL Angaston Operations APLNG Facility APN01 Appin Colliery - ICH Facility APU01 Pyrenees - AOA Facility ARC01 Mining Area C - MNG Facility Arcadia Arrow Surat Operations Ashton Coal Mine (Underground) Aurizon National Transport Facility AusNet Gas Services Pty Ltd Australian Gas Networks (Vic) Pty Ltd Ballera Baralaba Coal Mine Batchfire Resources No.1 Beharra Springs Bell Bay Smelter Bengalla Operations Birkenhead Operations Blackwater Mine Blackwater Mine Boggabri Coal Minesite Boyne Smelters Limited Brockman 2 / Nammuldi Mines Brockman 4 Mine Bulga Coal Complex Burton Complex Byerwen Mine CAN01 Capcoal Mine Carborough Downs Coal Mine Carmichael Coal Mine Carosue Dam Operations Caval Ridge Mine CEM NSW Berrima Maldon Centurion Coal Mine Chain Valley Colliery Chandala Processing Plant Christmas Creek Mine Clermont Coal Operations Cloudbreak Mine Cockburn Operations Collinsville Mine Condabri Talinga Orana Cook Colliery Coppabella Coal Mine Cowal Operations CSBP Kwinana Facility CTC WA Facility Curragh Mine Curtis Island GLNG Plant Dandenong Darwin LNG Plant Daunia Mine Daunia Mine Dawson Mine DBNGP DEN01 Dongara Operations Drake Mine Duketon South Operations EGP Eliwana Mine Ensham Coal Mine Fairview Fimiston Operations Fisherman's Landing FLNG Foxleigh Mine Geelong Refinery GEM01 Gibson Island Gippsland Basin facility Goldfields Gas Transmission Pipeline Goonyella Broadmeadow Mine Gorgon Operations Gove Operations Granny Smith Mine Site Greenbushes Lithium Operation Grosvenor Mine Gruyere Mine Site Gudai-Darri Mine Hail Creek Mine Hope Downs 1 Mine Hope Downs 4 Mine Hunter Valley Operations mine HVY01 Hunter Valley Energy Coal - CCL Facility InfraBuild Steel Laverton Steel Mill Integra Underground Mine Iron Bridge Mine Ironbark No. 1 Isaac Plains Complex Jax Mine Jellinbah Mine JGN Jimblebar Mine Jundee Gold Mine Kemerton Silicon Smelter Kestrel Coal Pty Ltd King of the Hills Kogan Creek Mine Koolyanobbing Iron Ore Operations Kooragang Island Kwinana Alumina Refinery Kwinana Pigment Plant Lake Vermont Mine Leinster Power Station Liberty Bell Bay Liberty Primary Steel Whyalla Steelworks Mandalong Mine Mangoola Marandoo Mine Maules Creek Open Cut Mine McArthur River Mine Operations McArthur River Power Station Mesa A Mine Mesa J / K Mine Metropolitan Colliery Middlemount Coal Mine Millicent Mill Mobil Altona Refinery Montara Operations Moolarben Coal Mine (Open Cut & Underground) Moomba Plant Moorvale Coal Mine Moranbah Moranbah North Mine Mount Isa Mines Copper and Zinc Operations Mount Pleasant Operations Mt Keith Power Station Mt Marion Lithium Project Mt Owen Glendell Complex Multinet Principal Distribution Network and South Gippsland Pipeline Murrin Murrin Operations Myuna Colliery Narrabri Underground Mine Newman Operations Newman Power Station Newmont Boddington Gold Operation Newmont Tanami Operation Ningaloo Vision FPSO NKS01 Nickel West Kalgoorlie Facility NKW01 Nickel West Kwinana Facility NMK01 Nickel West Mt Keith Facility Norske Skog Boyer Mill North West Shelf Project Norwich Park Mine Nowra Plant Nyrstar Port Pirie Facility Oaky Creek Coal Complex ODS01 Olympic Dam – UOD Facility Olive Downs Complex Opal Australian Paper Maryvale Mill Orora Glass Plant Gawler Otway Pacific National National Transport Facility Paraburdoo Mine Parkhurst Magnesia Manufacturing Plant Peak Downs Mine Phosphate Hill Pilbara Rail Operations Pilgangoora Operations Pinjarra Alumina Refinery Pluto LNG Poitrel Mine Port Bonython Plant Port Kembla Steelworks Port Latta Pelletising Plant Portland Aluminium Smelter Premier Coal Mine (Open Cut) PRL03 Rail - IOR Facility Qantas Airways Limited National Transport Facility Qenos Altona Manufacturing QGC Upstream Queensland Alumina Limited Refinery Queensland Curtis LNG Plant Queensland Nitrates Ammonium Nitrate Plant Rail Railton Ranger Mine Ravensthorpe Nickel Operation Ravenswood Mine Ravensworth Operations Refinery Qld Lytton Rio Tinto Weipa Rio Tinto Yarwun Rolleston Coal Mine Roma Hub Roy Hill Mine Russell Vale Colliery Saraji Mine Savage River Mine Sewerage West SIMEC Mining - Middleback Range Iron Ore Mine (Whyalla) Sino Iron Project – Cape Preston Sojitz Gregory Crinum Mine Solomon Mine Solomon Power Station South Walker Creek South West Queensland Pipeline South West Synthetic Rutile Operations Spring Gully Reedy Creek Combabula Start up and Operations of the Ichthys LNG Project Sunrise Dam TAHMOOR COAL MINE Telfer Gold Mine Thunderbox Operations Tom Price Mine / WTS Tomago Aluminium Smelter Tropicana Gold Mine TT-Line - Victorian Operation United Coal Mine V/Line Varanus Hub Vincent Project Venture Virgin Australia Holdings National Transport Facility Wagerup Alumina Refinery Wambo Coal Mine Warkworth Mine West Angelas Mine Western Australia Western Port Works Wheatstone Operations Wilpinjong Coal Mine Wodgina Operations WOR01 YAN01 Yandi/Marillana Creek Mine - MNG Facility Yandicoogina Mine Yarnima Power Station Yarrabee Coal Mine (Open Cut) Yarwun Nitrates YPF AMMONIA PLANT