National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment (2015 Measures No. 1) Regulation 2015 (Cth)

National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment (2015 Measures No. 1) Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 44, 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 16 April 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Greg Hunt

Minister for the Environment

Contents

1............ Name.................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority............................................................................................ 1

4............ Schedules............................................................................................ 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                            2

National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Regulations 2008                   2

1Name

This is the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment (2015 Measures No. 1) Regulation 2015.

2Commencement

This instrument commences on 1 July 2015.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Regulations 2008

1  Regulation 1.03

Insert:

greenhouse gas substance has the same meaning as in section 7 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.

2  Regulation 2.02

Repeal the regulation, substitute:

2.02  Definition of carbon dioxide equivalence—values specified for determining carbon dioxide equivalence

                  For the definition of carbon dioxide equivalence in section 7 of the Act, the value specified in relation to a kind of greenhouse gas is the value specified as the Global Warming Potential for that greenhouse gas mentioned in an item of the following table.

Table—Values specified for determining carbon dioxide equivalence
Item	Greenhouse gas	Chemical formula	Global Warming Potential (GWP)
1	Carbon dioxide	CO2	1
2	Methane	CH4	25
3	Nitrous oxide	N2O	298
4	Sulphur hexafluoride	SF6	22 800
5	HFC‑23	CHF3	14 800
6	HFC‑32	CH2F2	675
7	HFC‑41	CH3F2	92
8	HFC‑43‑10mee	C5H2F10	1 640
9	HFC‑125	C2HF5	3 500
10	HFC‑134	C2H2F4 (CHF2CHF2)	1 100
11	HFC‑134a	C2H2F4 (CH2FCF3)	1 430
12	HFC‑143	C2H3F3 (CHF2CH2F)	353
13	HFC‑143a	C2H3F3 (CF3CH3)	4 470
14	HFC‑152a	C2H4F2 (CH3CHF2)	124
15	HFC‑227ea	C3HF7	3 220
16	HFC‑236fa	C3H2F6	9 810
17	HFC‑245ca	C3H3F5	693
18	Perfluoromethane (tetrafluoromethane)	CF4	7 390
19	Perfluoroethane (hexafluoroethane)	C2F6	12 200
20	Perfluoropropane	C3F8	8 830
21	Perfluorobutane	C4F10	8 860
22	Perfluorocyclobutane	c‑C4F8	10 300
23	Perfluoropentane	C5F12	9 160
24	Perfluorohexane	C6F14	9 300

Note 1:     Global Warming Potential (also known as GWP) is defined in the Glossary published by the UNFCCC as an index representing the combined effect of the differing times greenhouse gases remain in the atmosphere and their relative effectiveness in absorbing outgoing infrared radiation.

Note 2:     The Global Warming Potential figures in the above table are the figures published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

3  Subregulation 4.12(2)

Omit “CO₂” (wherever occurring), substitute “greenhouse gas substances”.

4  Paragraph 4.12(3)(a)

Omit “the CO₂”, substitute “greenhouse gas substances”.

5  Paragraph 4.12(3)(b)

Omit “the CO₂ was”, substitute “greenhouse gas substances were”.

6  Paragraph 4.12(3)(f)

After “gas”, insert “substances”.