Nature Repair Market: Ongoing development

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Overview

We develop market policy and methods. To do this we engage with, and collaborate with, technical experts, partner organisations and market stakeholders. We do this at workshops and via consultations.

Policy settings to enable the Market to supply environmental offsets

The government’s environmental law reform package passed on 28 November 2025. It included some changes to the Nature Repair Act 2023. The change allows for methods under the Nature Repair Market to specify whether projects can be used as environmental offsets.

The Nature Repair Market is being designed to support voluntary action on nature repair as well as providing a source of offsets. Market project proponents can choose whether to run a voluntary project or seek to develop a potential offset project.

We’d like your feedback on policy settings to give effect to this change.

1. Policy settings to enable the Market to supply environmental offsets

The issues paper outlines our proposed approach to Market settings to enable offset supply.

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2. Supporting threatened species and threatened ecological communities in Nature Repair Market projects

This sets out the intent of the threatened species variable biodiversity project characteristic.

Download the issues paper:

3. Rules to support Market integrity and administration

Overview of proposed changes to the Nature Repair Rules 2024. These are the operational and administrative laws for the Nature Repair Market.

Download the issues paper:

Recorded presentation

Download the recorded presentation

Download the transcript:

Information session

Nature Repair Market: Ongoing development

11:00am–12:00pm AEST, Thursday 30 April

How to provide feedback

You can:

read the issues papers
watch the recorded presentation
attend the information session - if you would like further information or have questions
Email feedback to naturerepairmarket@dcceew.gov.au by 5:00pm AEST, Monday 4 May 2026.

You can provide feedback on one or all papers. This will inform further policy development. We will not publish feedback. We will upload a general summary of the process; and feedback received, when available.

When drafting your feedback please ensure:

you have consent from relevant parties when you are drawing on their perspectives or intellectual property, for example Indigenous knowledge or data
that parties are aware how their information will be used and stored through the process
you do not include information considered sensitive or commercial-in-confidence .

To read more on the public consultations held in 2025, visit Nature Repair Market consultations - overview.

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Further work related to offsets is underway to develop National Environmental Standards and establish the Restoration Contributions Holder, for more information see Stronger environmental protection and restoration.

The department will release National Environmental Standards for statutory consultation soon on the department’s Have Your Say website.