Government will also overhaul state laws after Guardian Australia uncovered serious problems with biodiversity offsets scheme
NSW environment minister Penny Sharpe with a picture of broad-toothed rat. Sharpe has said biodiversity in the state is ‘in crisis’.NSW environment minister Penny Sharpe with a picture of broad-toothed rat. Sharpe has said biodiversity in the state is ‘in crisis’.government says the state’s biodiversity is in crisis and must be put on a path to recovery to reverse the decline of beloved species and ecosystems.
Sharpe said the response, which fully or partially accepts 49 out of 58 recommendations from the 2023 review led by the former treasury secretary Ken Henry, set out immediate priorities and “is the start of concerted action, reform, investment”.the state’s environment laws would not succeed without substantial changes and warned half of the species under threat in NSW were on course to become extinct within the next 100 years.
“They’re not giving it statutory primacy,” he said. “They seem to want to tackle it in a different way.”Introducing legislation next year to enshrine a new state nature strategy with conservation and restoration targets;Developing maps that identify current and future areas of high biodiversity value to give “clear guidance” on where environmental impacts should be avoided;
The government said it was “committed to offsets being a genuine last resort” and it would introduce a new statutory standard requiring developers to demonstrate how they had genuinely avoided and minimised impacts to biodiversity, particularly for species and ecosystems at risk of irreversible impacts.The steps developers had taken to avoid and minimise impacts would be made public on a new register.of mine sites towards their offset requirements.
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