Amendments have been made to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Measurement) Determination 2008.
The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Measurement) Amendment (2025 Update) Determination 2025 is available on the Federal Register of Legislation.
The amendments apply to reports to be submitted by 31 October 2026 for the 2025–26 reporting year. The amendments do not affect obligations relating to reports to be submitted by 31 October 2025 for the 2024–25 reporting year.
Public consultation on these amendments took place from 28 February to 11 April 2025. A summary of consultation outcomes is available on the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water’s consultation page, together with non-confidential submissions.
Consequential changes to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Regulations 2008 are expected to be made in coming weeks.
Read what the amendments are below.
Renewable fuels
- Introduces market-based reporting of emissions from consumption of biomethane and hydrogen
Fugitive emissions from oil and natural gas operations
- Updates the emissions factors used in method 1 and method 2A for gas flared during oil and natural gas operations
- Makes method 2B for estimating fugitive emissions from gas flared during natural gas production available to natural gas transmission and distribution facilities to expand access to facility-specific higher order methods
- Corrects an error in the contextual data to be reported when method 2B is used to estimate fugitive emissions from gas flared during natural gas production. The correction replaces unintentional references to ‘tonnes of flared crude oil and liquids’ with references to 'tonnes and gigajoules of flared gas'
- Adds the requirement to report the ‘tonnes of flared gas’ when methods 2, 2A or 3 is used to estimate fugitive emissions from flaring during natural gas operations are used. This update will help to support Australia’s domestic and international emissions reporting obligations and NGER Scheme compliance
Scope 2 emissions from consumption of electricity
- Makes a routine annual update of emission factors
- Updates the market-based method
- Adds a requirement for consistent use of the market-based method for all facilities within a controlling corporation’s group
- Clarifies the permitted timing of surrender of renewable energy certificates used in calculating market-based emissions
- Adds new matters to be identified under Schedule 4 – Renewable Energy Target accreditation codes for power stations within the facility, surrender ID numbers of surrendered certificates
Waste
- Enables reporting of the diversion of biosolids to biochar production
- Updates the N2O emission factor for effluent discharged to estuaries
There are also other minor technical updates to improve clarity and operation of the scheme.