Nature Repair (Biodiversity Assessment) Instrument 2025 (Cth)

Nature Repair (Biodiversity Assessment) Instrument 2025

I, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for the Environment and Water, make the following instrument.

Dated 26.2.2025

Tanya Plibersek Minister for the Environment and Water

Contents

Part 1 —Preliminary 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions Part 2 —Application of this instrument 5 Application of this instrument Part 3 —Requirements relating to methodology determinations 6 Indigenous knowledge or values relating to biodiversity 7 Climate change considerations 8 Measuring change in biodiversity—starting state assessment of the project area 9 Measuring change in biodiversity—specifying or establishing counterfactual scenarios 10 Measuring change in biodiversity—identifying fixed biodiversity project characteristics 11 Measuring change in biodiversity—identifying variable biodiversity project characteristics 12 Assessing change in variable biodiversity project characteristics—ecosystem condition 13 Assessing change in variable biodiversity project characteristics—threats to biodiversity in native species 14 Assessing change in variable biodiversity project characteristics—commitment to protection of biodiversity in native species 15 Assessing change in variable biodiversity project characteristics—capability of the area to support threatened species 16 Assessing change in variable biodiversity project characteristics—culturally significant entities 17 Assessing change in other specified variable biodiversity project characteristics 18 Measuring and assessing biodiversity outcomes

Part 1—Preliminary 1 Name This instrument is the Nature Repair (Biodiversity Assessment) Instrument 2025. 2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.