This document summarises the Government's response to each of the 25 recommendations made in the Climate Change Authority's(CCA) 2023 review of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Legislation (NGER), along with further actions and steps required to implement necessary changes. 

The CCA is required to review the NGER legislation every five years. In the context of the review, the government wrote to the CCA in 2023 to ask it to consider opportunities to improve NGER scheme methane emissions measurement, reporting and verification, noting the recent reforms to the Safeguard Mechanism and the increasing importance these changes place on the accuracy of emissions reporting under the NGER scheme. 

The independent CCA found the legislation is “performing well and continues to be integral to meeting Australia’s international energy and emissions reporting obligations” and that “the domestic and global contexts are changing [making it] important to consider how the scheme may need to evolve”.

The CCA made 25 recommendations focussed on methane emissions measurement, reporting and verification as well as enhancements to data transparency, coverage and administration. The majority of the recommendations (13/25) were agreed to, a further 11/25 agreed to in principle, and one recommendation noted.