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Electoral Act, pursuant to subsection 10A(2)—Effect of Commonwealth Electoral Act amendments on the ACT funding and disclosure scheme—A special report by the ACT Electoral Commission, dated 19 February 2020.
Mr Ramsay presented the following paper:
Public Accounts—Standing Committee—Report 8—Inquiry into Auditor-General’s Report No 7 of 2016: Certain Land Development Agency acquisitions-—Government response.
Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement Method) Determination 2020
Paper and statement by minister
MR RATTENBURY (Kurrajong—Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Minister for Corrections and Justice Health, Minister for Justice, Consumer Affairs and Road Safety and Minister for Mental Health) (3.13): For the information of members, I present the following paper:
Legislation Act, pursuant to section 64—Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act—Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement Method) Determination 2020—Disallowable Instrument DI2020-16 (LR, 17 February 2020), together with its explanatory statement.
I ask leave to make a statement in relation to the paper.
Leave granted.
MR RATTENBURY: I am pleased to table the Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement Method) Determination 2020. This instrument makes a minor update to the methodology used to determine the ACT greenhouse gas inventory. The inventory provides a comprehensive annual picture of the territory’s greenhouse gas emissions and allows us to identify emitting sectors while tracking progress against our interim reduction targets.
The update to the methodology is a result of the Australian Energy Market Operator no longer publishing data that is required under the existing method to calculate the ACT’s share of New South Wales below baseline renewables generation. To address this, the methodology now averages the ACT’s share of below baseline renewables generation in previous years to determine the ACT’s share for 2018-19. Below baseline generation does not count toward achievement of the renewable energy target and is not eligible for large-scale generation certificates, or LGCs.
This change will have little, if any, impact on the greenhouse gas inventory, while still remaining consistent with national and international best practice. For example, the figure under the previous methodology for 2017-18 is the same as the figure under the new methodology for 2018-19. The 2018-19 inventory will be finalised after the
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