Bill
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Climate Trigger) Bill 2020
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25.
- Sponsor
- Hanson-Young
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-02-13
- second reading — 2020-02-13
- second reading — 2020-02-24
- other — 2022-07-25
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2020-02-13.
The bill would add emissions-intensive activities to the list of matters that require federal environmental assessment under the EPBC Act.
It would create civil and criminal penalties for individuals or companies that carry out such activities without approval from the Minister.
The bill would start the day after it receives Royal Assent and applies to actions beginning on or after that day.
- Introduces a climate trigger by making emissions-intensive actions a new matter of national environmental significance.
- Establishes civil penalties for taking an emissions-intensive action that has a significant impact on the environment.
- Creates criminal offences for the same conduct, with maximum penalties of 7 years imprisonment or 420 penalty units.
- Defines emissions-intensive actions as those involving mining operations, drilling exploration, land clearing, or as specified in regulations.
- Provides exceptions where the Minister has approved the action or it is covered by an accredited management arrangement.
- Allows the Governor-General to make transitional regulations for matters of a transitional nature.
Individuals and bodies corporate that undertake emissions-intensive actions such as mining, drilling, or land clearing.
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