With further strengthening the Bill has the potential to deliver a successful nature repair market – ALCA focuses on six key amendments in its submission.

Nature is critical to our wellbeing, and adequately measuring and reporting on its condition is a key part of building roadmaps to protect and restore Australian nature. Policy action must reflect all significant pressures facing nature. Acting on climate change alone is not sufficient to avert Australia’s nature crisis, and ALCA strongly recommends that the wording in emerging policy themes and draft descriptions in Measuring What Matters should reflect all pressures, not just climate change.

Philanthropy has and continues to play a critical role in delivering outcomes for nature.

The urgency of responding to the nature crisis is not reflected in the current treatment of environmental charities; most significantly, environmental charities lack fringe benefit tax concessions currently afforded to Public Benevolent Institutions.

Despite the worsening nature crisis and its increasing social and economic impacts,
Australia’s legacy of structural underfunding for on-ground nature conservation has largely continued.

ALCA strongly supports a role for robust OECMs in Australia and supports the Government in proceeding with its work to define and implement OECMs.

An enlivened and refreshed Biodiversity Conservation Act is needed to deliver a nature positive future for NSW.