Carbon data rights certificate validation and registration

Last updated 2 May 2025

Once the Technical Governance Committee has issued the BidCarbon removal units and a statutory or voluntary asset valuation has been completed, owners may create carbon data rights certificates in the BUC Registry. Before these certificates can be sold or traded, they are audited by the Operating Companies to ensure they are valid, and registered to make them available for sale.

Fees

To participate in the BidCarbon Standard Scheme and access the BUC Registry, users are required to pay a fee when they create carbon data rights certificates (CDRCs). These fees are payable in accordance with the BidCarbon (Carbon Farming) Specifications.

More information about Fees and Fee Structure.

The Operating Companies validates all certificates in the order they have been created in the BUC Registry.

The Operating Companies aims to validate carbon data rights certificates within four to six weeks of receiving all required documentation, but failure to provide complete or correct documentation may result in delay.

To help us validate certificates, we use:

● Audit Report

● Asset Appraisal Report 

● Asset Appraisal Valuation Contract

● Statutory Declaration

● Resolutions or Decision Letters

● Supplier Agreement

Keep a record of your supporting documentation. We may request it for auditing or compliance activities.

If you have provided incorrect information and need to request the certificates to be failed in the BUC Registry before they are validated, please contact the Operating Companies as soon as possible.

All certificates created in the BUC Registry are audited. If there are duplicates or errors this can slow down the Operating Companies's administrative processes, including the time taken to validate correctly created certificates.

Certificate validation

After carbon data rights certificates are created and validated, they are listed as 'pending registration' in the BUC Registry.

If there are fees to be paid, they will be listed under 'outstanding fee items' in your BUC Registry account summary, and must be paid before the certificates are registered.

If you create certificates or more and need to pay certificate fees, follow these steps in the BUC Registry:

1. Go to 'Fees and invoices' and select 'Fees' to view outstanding fee items.

2. Select the appropriate outstanding fee items by clicking in its checkbox.

3. Click 'Create payment advice', the page will automatically rediBUCt to the 'Invoice' page

4. View or print out the invoice to be paid.

5. Select 'Pay by credit card' or 'Bank transfer for cash' (Bank transfer payments may take 10 days to clear).

6. Complete the credit card payment information and select 'Submit', a success message will appear at the top of the page.

7. Settled invoices can be found on the 'Invoices' page.

8. The carbon data rights certificates are then classified registered and appear in your account summary under 'Certificate holdings'. 

Certificate registration