These guides can help you meet your reporting obligations under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007.
If you need a more accessible version of any document, contact us.
New guidelines for 2024–25
We're currently updating the guidelines for 2024–25. Our updated guidelines are indicated as the ‘2024–25 version’.
We recommend downloading the new guidelines for your 2024–25 NGER reporting once published.
Read the ‘What’s new in 2024–25’ section in each guideline for a summary of what has changed.
With the transition to Online Services, we've replaced the Client Portal user guide with the NGER Online Services user guide.
Administrative guides
This guide includes basic information about EERS. It can help you:
- develop a familiarity with EERS
- create or modify your corporation structure
- report activity data
- generate and submit a report.
This guide is for reporters downloading historical NGER reports and data in the legacy version of EERS. We will remove it when the 2024–25 reporting period opens.
Download EERS user guide.
This guide helps you navigate through screens in legacy EERS to complete reporting actions. We will remove it when legacy EERS is closed.
Download EERS navigation guide.
This guide helps you understand and fix validation messages that may appear in legacy EERS. We will remove it when legacy EERS is closed.
Download EERS validation errors and warning messages guideline.
This guide helps you manage user roles and permissions for the new EERS via Online Services.
Download NGER Online Services user guide.
Sector-specific guidelines
We encourage you to read the relevant guide before submitting a report required under section 19, 22G or 22X of the Act.
This guide can help you estimate emissions from coal mining facilities.
Download estimating emissions and energy from coal mining guideline.
This guide can help you estimate the emissions from electricity production and consumption.
Download estimating emissions and energy in the electricity production and consumption guideline.
This guide can help you estimate emissions and energy from industrial processes.
Download estimating emissions and energy from industrial processes guidance.
This guide can help you report within the solid waste sector.
Download estimating emissions and energy from solid waste and landfill biogas management guideline.
This guide can help you report within the wastewater handling sector.
Activity-based guidelines
This guide introduces the new voluntary marked-based scope 2 emissions method. It provides instructions on reporting, a note on data publication, and supporting examples.
Download voluntary market-based scope 2 emissions guideline.
This guide can help you understand:
- aggregating facility data
- percentage reporting
- incidental reporting
- optional reporting of small amounts of fuel combustion and electricity consumption.
Download guidance on aggregated facility reporting percentage estimates and incidental emissions and energy.
This guide outlines what you must report if you consume, produce or use:
- blended fuels
- other fuel mixes
- bitumen
- explosives.
Download reporting blended fuels, other fuel mixes, bitumen and explosives guideline.
This guide helps you report emissions and energy from fuel combustion.
Download estimating emissions and energy from fuel combustion guideline.
This guide outlines the requirements for using methods 2 and 3 for landfill site planning and verification.
Download landfill site plan and verification requirements – methods 2 and 3.
This guide helps you define and report energy production and consumption.
Download reporting energy production and consumption guideline.
This guide helps you report emissions of hydrofluorocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride.
Download reporting hydrofluorocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride gases guideline.
This guide helps you understand measurement criteria A, AA, AAA and BBB.
This guide helps you report consumption of petroleum-based oils and greases.
This guide helps you report uncertainty. It includes background information and instructions on how to report in the EERS.
Download reporting uncertainty guideline.
NGER quick help topics
This quick guide provides information about:
- EERS and Client Portal access
- EERS administration and navigation
- technical NGER reporting.
Download NGER quick help topics.