Environmental offsets

What is an environmental offset and when is it required?

What is an environmental offset? When is an environmental offset required? How to determine if your activity will have a significant residual impact on a prescribed environmental matter.

Information and opportunities for landholders

How to register your land as an environmental offset through an expression of interest or as an advanced offset.

Deciding how to deliver an environmental offset

There are several offset delivery methods which include financial settlement, proponent driven, or a combination offset.

Finding an environmental offset site

The Queensland environmental offset framework uses several tools to encourage land supply for offset implementation, including Advanced Offsets, Strategic Offset Investment Corridors (SOICs), Landholder Expressions of Interest and Direct Benefit Management Plans (DBMPs).

Legislation

An outline of the legislation relating to Environmental Offsets and the QLD Environmental offset framework.

Legal security

Learn about how environmental offsets are legally secured including Environmental Offset Protection Areas and Voluntary Declarations.

Queensland's Environmental Offsets Update

Information about the Queensland Government's review of the Queensland's Environmental Offsets Framework.

Offsets Register

Search the offsets register to find out which impacts require an offset, what payments have been made into the offsets account, and land-based offsets under delivery.

How does the government invest funds for financially settled environmental offsets?

Understand how the Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Technology invests funds made into the offsets account and delivers financial settlement offsets.

Forms, templates, guidelines and other resources

Find application forms, templates, guidelines, and information on reviewing environmental offset decisions.

What’s new?

The department has undertaken an overhaul of all the forms associated with environmental offsets. To view the updated forms, please go to the Forms, templates, guidelines and other resources page.

Learn about the directions for reform resulting from the review of the Environmental Offsets Framework in the Queensland Environmental Offsets Framework – Consultation and Response Report (PDF, 681.1 KB) .

Use the new online expression of interest form to register your interest in delivering offsets on your land.

Read the updated State Supported Infrastructure Koala Conservation Policy 2023.

Financial settlement

Calculate your financial settlement using the Financial Settlement Offset Calculator.

Environmental Offset Policy

The Queensland Environmental Offset Policy is a whole-of-government policy for the assessment of offset proposals to satisfy offset conditions.

To view previous versions, please go to the Legislation page.

General Guide

The General Guide is available to assist you with interpreting and implementing the Queensland environmental offsets framework.

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