Welcome to the consultation hub for The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
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We are seeking feedback on proposed amendments to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) scheme and the NGER scheme forward work program. Status: Closed Close 11 April 2025 | Closed | 11 April 2025 |
The Nature Repair Act 2023 (the Act) came into effect on 15 December 2023, establishing a world-first legislated, national, voluntary biodiversity market. Status: Closed Close 31 October 2024 | Closed | 31 October 2024 |
We are seeking your feedback on the subordinate legislation and scheme administration that will underpin the operation of the Nature Repair Market under the Nature R... Status: Closed Close 8 October 2024 | Closed | 8 October 2024 |
We are consulting on guidelines to set international best practice emissions intensities for use by new facilities under the Safeguard Mechanism. Status: Closed Close 11 August 2023 | Closed | 11 August 2023 |
We are inviting interested members of the public to provide their feedback on proposed updates to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) Scheme by makin... Status: Closed Close 28 April 2023 | Closed | 28 April 2023 |
We are consulting on a proposed amendment to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Safeguard Mechanism) Rule to insert extra default emissions intensity valu... Status: Closed Close 3 August 2022 | Closed | 3 August 2022 |
We are proposing updates to National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) Scheme legislation. Status: Closed Close 29 April 2022 | Closed | 29 April 2022 |
Default values set in the Safeguard Mechanism legislation are used by Safeguard-covered facilities to apply to the Clean Energy Regulator for facility-specific basel... Status: Closed Close 12 June 2021 | Closed | 12 June 2021 |
We are proposing updates to the:
National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Regulations 2008 (NGER Regulations)
National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Measurement)... Status: Closed Close 20 May 2021 | Closed | 20 May 2021 |
We ammended the Safeguard Mechanism in March 2019 to make it simpler and fairer. Calculated and production adjusted baseline applications were simplified by giving b... Status: Closed Close 27 August 2020 | Closed | 27 August 2020 |
We are proposing updates to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Regulations 2008 (NGER Regulations) and National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Measuremen... Status: Closed Close 9 June 2020 | Closed | 9 June 2020 |
The Government released an exposure draft of the amendment instrument on Friday 20 December 2019. Interested parties were invited to make written submissions. The su... Status: Closed Close 28 January 2020 | Closed | 28 January 2020 |
The Safeguard Mechanism provides a framework for Australia's largest emitters to monitor, manage and report their emissions. Net emissions must be kept below facilit... Status: Closed Close 27 August 2019 | Closed | 27 August 2019 |
The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Safeguard Mechanism) Amendment Rule (No. 1) 2019 was registered and published on 6 March 2019. Status: Closed Close 6 September 2018 | Closed | 6 September 2018 |
In 2017, the Government reviewed Australia's climate policies — including the Emissions Reduction Fund and its Safeguard Mechanism — to ensure they remain effective ... Status: Closed Close 29 March 2018 | Closed | 29 March 2018 |