By 2050, if not sooner. You can read the announcement from 2015 on our website.

By adding a Green Choice™ option to your electricity plan, we will source the equivalent to a portion (10%, 20% or 100%) of your household's electricity consumption from renewable energy sources. Future Forests offsets the carbon emissions associated with your household's electricity usage through diverse native Australian forestry. The cost of Green Choice™ can vary depending on the amount of electricity you use. With Future Forests, you just pay $1 a week, whatever your energy usage. You can choose to get one, or both, for your home.

That’s easy. After speaking with our customers, we found that many were worried about climate change and wanted to do something to tackle it. But they were looking for a way that was both affordable and easy to understand. So, along came AGL Future Forests.

Call us anytime 24/7 on 131 245 to stop paying $1 a week and end your participation in the program.

Western Australia’s Wheatbelt region and Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor – where over 90% of land has been clearer for agriculture – are the two target areas for planting the Future Forests trees.   Leading scientists and conservation groups, including Conservation International and the WWF, have identified both areas as biodiversity hotspots. These unique areas offer an opportunity to create a habitat for a wide range of Australian flora and fauna species.

Future Forests is independently audited each year with the results published as part of AGL's annual Sustainability Report. 100% of customer contributions go toward purchasing carbon offset credits, less GST.   The carbon offsets we purchase are also backed by the Australian and international standards, such as the WWF’s Gold Standard. The Gold Standard is regarded as one of the highest standards of carbon credits in the world.   We also share regular updates via email so you can see what’s happening with your Future Forests contribution.

No, we don’t profit off this program. Customer contributions for Future Forests are used to purchase carbon offsets from native Australian forestry programs.

It’s likely that not all of the trees we plant will survive and contribute to our targets, so we factor in a number of trees dying when making our calculations.

Normally between May and July each year. Once a seedling’s grown to a suitable size and has a great chance of survival, it leaves the nursery and gets planted in one of the Future Forests target areas.

Our current supplier has conservatively estimated that one tonne of CO2 is sequestered by 7 trees, although this can vary from 4 to 15 depending on the site, terrain and rainfall.

According to the Australian Energy Regulator, 87% of Australia’s electricity is produced using fossil fuels, and it’s been proven that generating energy this way adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and contributes to global warming.

We’ll chip in the rest for you. That’s how AGL Future Forests works – if you’re committed to making a difference, so are we.

Yes, our corporate offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide have joined the program.

It was established in 2003 as a best practice benchmark for energy projects developed under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), to make sure they’re delivering genuine emission reductions and long-term sustainable development. Endorsed by more than 80 non-government organisations (NGOs) and with over 1,100 projects across 70 countries undergoing certification, the Gold Standard is now the global benchmark for climate and development initiatives with the highest integrity and greatest impact.   For more info head to the Gold Standard website.

Not yet. But we’ll be speaking to Australian businesses to see if this program is one that they’d be interested in too. So stay tuned!

It’s all quite technical, but trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and store the carbon in their leaves, branches, stems, bark and roots. Actually, close to half the dry weight of a tree’s biomass is carbon.

As well as complying with the Kyoto Protocol, all of the Future Forests target areas have Carbon Rights and Carbon Covenants registered on their land titles – meaning it’s illegal for their current or future landowners to damage of remove any trees for the next 100 years.

Call us anytime 24/7 on 131 245 or visit the Future Forests webpage to stop paying $1 a week and end your participation in the program.

It all depends on which Australian native species will survive and thrive best in the target area’s local habitat, but from drought-tolerant Eucalypts to woody-stemmed Acacias, up to 40 different species are being planted as part of Future Forests.

In Australia, changes in the climate are increasing our risk of experiencing drought, bushfires, flooding and rising sea-levels.