The Biodiversity Offsets Scheme

Biodiversity Offsets Scheme overview and achievements

• Biobanking: the previous scheme
• How the Biodiversity Offsets Scheme works
• Biodiversity Offsets Scheme overview and achievements
• Biodiversity Offsets Scheme glossary

Resources to help developers understand how the Biodiversity Offsets Scheme applies to them

• When the Biodiversity Offsets Scheme applies
• Serious and irreversible impacts
• Offset rules
• Find an accredited assessor

A Biodiversity Stewardship Agreement helps conserve habitat for native species and ecosystems and generates biodiversity credits that can be sold to fund management of weeds, pests, fire, and ecological restoration

• About the Biodiversity Credits Supply Fund and Taskforce
• Generating and selling biodiversity credits
• Stewardship Expression of Interest
• Total Fund Deposit and discount rate

Understanding the biodiversity credits market

• Biodiversity credits
• Biodiversity Offsets Scheme public registers
• Biodiversity Credits Markets Sales Dashboard
• Summary tables of biodiversity credit market information

Maps, systems and resources

• The Biodiversity Values Map and Threshold Tool
• Biodiversity Values Category Reports and map review
• Biodiversity Offsets and Agreement Management System
• Guides tools and databases

News and updates on the Biodiversity Offsets Scheme

• Latest scheme updates
• Previous Biodiversity Offsets Scheme Updates
• Biodiversity Offsets Scheme overview and achievements
• Biodiversity Offsets Scheme webinar series

Your one-stop shop for help and support on the Biodiversity Offsets Scheme

• Biodiversity Offsets Scheme Help Desk and support
• Biodiversity Offsets Scheme webinar series
• Scheme contacts
• Biodiversity Offsets Scheme glossary

Under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 assessors must be accredited to apply the Biodiversity Assessment Method

• The Biodiversity Assessment Method
• Biodiversity Assessment Method tools and resources
• The role of accredited assessors
• Applying for assessor accreditation

Local government and other decision makers are key partners in the conservation and management of biodiversity and threatened species in New South Wales

• Local government training and resources
• The role of local government and other decision makers
• Concurrence requirements for a reduced credit obligation
• Scheme contacts

Understanding biodiversity certification

• Register of biodiversity certification orders
• Biodiversity certification process
• Strategic biodiversity certification
• Biodiversity certification forms and resources