Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00230:reg:7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00230
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 7
Character Range: 10988–12481

7  Climate change considerations
 (1) A methodology determination must contain a condition that a biodiversity project proposed to be covered by the methodology determination must not be registered unless the project proponent for the project:
 (a) has identified those parts of the project area (if any) that, based on one or more projections, may be vulnerable to the reasonably expected effects of climate change in a way that could affect the likelihood of the biodiversity outcome for the project being achieved; and
 (b) has demonstrated, based on evidence, how the project proponent plans to reduce the risk of the biodiversity outcome for the project not being achieved as a result of the reasonably expected effects of climate change, particularly in relation to the parts of the project area (if any) that have been identified for the purposes of paragraph (a) as vulnerable to those effects.
 (2) If a methodology determination requires that there must be a project plan for a registered biodiversity project that is covered by the methodology determination, the methodology determination must require the project plan to address, based on evidence, how the project proponent intends to reduce the risk of the biodiversity outcome for the project not being met as a result of reasonably expected climate change effects, particularly in relation to the parts of the project area (if any) that have been identified for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) as vulnerable to those effects.