These regulations, which come into force on 1 January 2025, amend the Climate Change (Other Removal Activities) Regulations 2009 (the principal regulations).

The amendment addresses a remaining reference to sulphur hexafluoride as a synthetic greenhouse gas. Sulphur hexafluoride has not been defined as such since 1 January 2013, when sulphur hexafluoride was not included in the definition of synthetic greenhouse gas that was inserted into section 4(1) of the Climate Change Response Act 2002.

Regulation 17 of the principal regulations is amended to no longer indicate that sulphur hexafluoride can be included in the activity of destroying synthetic greenhouse gases.

This amendment replaces the previous position in the principal regulations, which was that the destruction of sulphur hexafluoride, as a synthetic greenhouse gas, was permitted if it could be shown that it had been imported after 1 January 2013.