For thousands of generations, First Nations people have cared for country using a range of traditional land management practices. Today, many of these practices have become part of Australia's wider plan to use carbon farming as a method of reducing carbon emissions in our fight against climate change.

Indigenous Carbon Australia is a not-for-profit company that was founded in 2020. Our mission is to help First Nations communities cut through red tape so they can set up and run carbon farming projects on traditional land. We also help to get their carbon credits issued by the Clean Energy Regulator and find companies to purchase them at a premium price on the open market. 
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Carbon farming is an important revenue stream for First Nations people. It leads to more jobs on country, enhanced living conditions, hope for a better future, and the ongoing protection of land and water.
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We're the team
behind Indigenous Carbon Australia

billy gordon
​chief executive officer

Billy Gordon is a Barbarrum (bar-barrum) man from the Western Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland. Born in Innisfail, Billy also has family ties with Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Throughout his career, Billy has worked for the Queensland and New South Wales public service in education, training, health and broadly indigenous affairs.

Billy has also worked for Reconciliation Australia as their Education & Youth Officer and the Foundation for Young Australians. In 2015, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly, serving as the Independent Member for Cook.

Billy has a background in the aviation industry, working for regional airline company Skytrans between 2011-12. Over the last couple of years, he has worked in the carbon farming and trading sector with a national indigenous owner company, where he negotiated trades, contracts and established projects with corporations, state governments and indigenous communities.
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Currently, Billy is focusing all of his time and energies on Indigenous Carbon Australia.

KERRY KLIMM
​BOARD MEMBER

Kerry is a Guguu Yalanji and Koko Lamalama woman from Far North Queensland.  She has 30 years experience as a journalist and communications expert in commercial and First Nations media, government and not-for-profits.

Kerry runs Flashblak, a communications and creative agency working with First Nations' organisations as well as government, philanthropic sector and corporates. She has curated five Meeanjin Markets, and is part of a First Nations' co-op in Brisbane building First Nations' businesses in preparation for the 2032 Olympic Games.

RICKY ARCHER
​BOARD MEMBER

​Ricky is a Djungan man from the Western Tablelands region of North Queensland. Ricky has a strong network of on-ground land and sea managers across northern Australia, and has demonstrated an ability to connect the on-ground work of Indigenous organisations with regional, state and commonwealth priorities. 

​In his current role, Ricky is the Chief Executive Officer of the North Australian Indigenous Land & Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA). In addition, he is involved with numerous organisations and committees, enabling strategic input across a diverse field. These include CRC for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA), Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Management Advisory Group, National Feral Pig Action Plan Committee, Forestry Stewardship Council, Indigenous Working Group, and Indigenous Innovation Alliance.