Contents

Part 1--Preliminary                                                                                                             2

1............ Short title............................................................................................. 2

2............ Commencement................................................................................... 2

3............ Objects................................................................................................ 2

4............ Simplified outline of this Act.............................................................. 3

5............ Definitions.......................................................................................... 3

6............ Act binds the Crown........................................................................... 4

7............ Extension to external Territories.......................................................... 4

8............ Extension to exclusive economic zone and continental shelf............... 4

Part 2--Australia's greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets              5

9............ Simplified outline of this Part.............................................................. 5

10.......... Australia's greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets...................... 5

Part 3--Annual climate change statement                                                              7

11.......... Simplified outline of this Part.............................................................. 7

12.......... Annual climate change statement......................................................... 7

Part 4--Advisory functions of the Climate Change Authority                 9

13.......... Simplified outline of this Part.............................................................. 9

14.......... Climate Change Authority to give the Minister advice that relates to the preparation of an annual climate change statement............................................................................................................ 9

15.......... Climate Change Authority to advise the Minister on greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets to be included in a new or adjusted nationally determined contribution.................................. 11

Part 5--Periodic reviews of the operation of this Act                                   14

16.......... Simplified outline of this Part............................................................ 14

17.......... Periodic reviews of the operation of this Act.................................... 14

 

 

 

Climate Change Act 2022

No. 37, 2022

 

An Act to set out Australia's greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, to provide for annual climate change statements, to confer advisory functions on the Climate Change Authority, and for related purposes

[Assented to 13 September 2022]

The Parliament of Australia enacts: