4Definitions

4 Definitions

In this Act:

agreement includes a contract or deed.

appointed member means a Board member appointed under section 30.

ARENA: see Australian Renewable Energy Agency.

ARENA’s money: see section 67.

Australia, when used in a geographical sense, includes the external Territories.

Australian Renewable Energy Agency or ARENA means the body established by section 7.

Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets means:

(a) if:
(i) Australia’s current nationally determined contribution was communicated in accordance with Article 4 of the Paris Agreement in June 2022; and
(ii) that nationally determined contribution has not been adjusted in accordance with paragraph 11 of Article 4 of the Paris Agreement;
the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets set out in paragraphs 10(1)(a) and (b) of the Climate Change Act 2022; or
(b) in any other case—the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets included in:
(i) Australia’s current nationally determined contribution communicated in accordance with Article 4 of the Paris Agreement; or
(ii) if that nationally determined contribution has been adjusted in accordance with paragraph 11 of Article 4 of the Paris Agreement—that nationally determined contribution, as adjusted and in force from time to time.

Board means the Board of ARENA.

Board member means a member of the Board.

CEO means the Chief Executive Officer of ARENA.

Chair means the Chair of the Board.

Climate Change Convention means the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change done at New York on 9 May 1992, as amended and in force for Australia from time to time.

Note: The text of the Convention is set out in Australian Treaty Series 1994 No. 2 ([1994] ATS 2). In 2011, the text of a Convention in the Australian Treaty Series was accessible through the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (www.austlii.edu.au).

constitutional corporation means a corporation to which paragraph 51(xx) of the Constitution applies.