Strategic Offset Policy and Biodiversity Offset Guidelines · Attachment 2 - Noosa Biodiversity Offset Guideline Final

ORGANISATIONAL GUIDELINE - Biodiversity Offsets


Matters of State            The list of natural values and areas as described in the
Environmental               Queensland Government’s ‘State Planning Policy 2017’.
Significance (MSES)
Mitigation Hierarchy A tool that is used to limit the amount of damage an action, such as
                     a development, will have on the environment. There are three
                     steps, and each step must be followed in order, and to the greatest
                     extent possible, before moving on to the next.
Mitigation Hierarchy A set of principles which guide decision making regarding offset
Principles           approval
Monitoring Plan      A documented framework that sets out the methodology,
                     performance indicators, monitoring frequency, reporting
                     requirements and adaptive management measures used to assess
                     offset performance.
Nature-based         The act of working with nature to deliver benefits to people and the
Solutions            natural environment. They include the protection, restoration or
                     sustainable management of ecosystems, habitats and productive
                     lands, and can support and enhance biodiversity and ecosystem
                     health and help address climate risks, while simultaneously
                     providing a range of ecosystem services to people and community
                     wellbeing.
Nature Positive      An outcome whereby actions result in the overall improvement of
                     biodiversity, ecosystem health, ecological connectivity, and
                     resilience, such that nature is measurably better than the baseline
                     condition and any environmental losses are outweighed by
                     environmental gains.
Nature Refuge        A voluntary conservation agreement between a landholder and the
                     State that provides for the long-term protection and management of
                     biodiversity values on private land
Nature Repair Market Voluntary offsets market established to incentivise actions to
                     restore and protect biodiversity. It encourages nature positive land
                     management practices that deliver improved biodiversity outcomes.
                     The scheme establishes a marketplace where individuals and
                     organisations can undertake nature repair projects to generate a
                     tradable biodiversity certificate
No Net Loss and Net A target for a development project in which the impacts on specific
Gain                 biodiversity caused by the project are balanced or outweighed by
                     measures taken to avoid and minimize the project’s impacts, to
                     undertake on-site restoration and finally to offset the residual
                     impacts, so that no loss remains. Where the gain exceeds the loss,
                     the term Net Gain may be used instead of No Net Loss.
Non-remnant          Native vegetation that does not meet the criteria for remnant
Vegetation           vegetation under applicable Queensland legislation or mapping
                     frameworks
Noosa Council Driven Biodiversity offset opportunities, credits or conservation outcomes
Offsets              created through actions undertaken, funded or facilitated by Noosa
                     Council
Noosa Council Driven Development, infrastructure works or other activities undertaken,
Development          commissioned or delivered by Noosa Council, including activities
                     carried out by contractors on Council's behalf.
Noosa Plan 2020      Local planning instrument that regulates land use planning and
                     development in Noosa Shire, administered by Noosa Council
Noosa Plan 2020      A dataset which maps environmental values that are identified and
Biodiversity,        protected across Noosa Shire and which trigger assessment of
Waterways and        development against the overlay code.
Wetlands Overlay


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