Environmental reporting programme: a schedule of reporting
The national environmental reporting programme delivers a range of quantitative environmental information.
The purpose of this schedule is to:
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ensure people developing policy in the Ministry and other government agencies are aware of when quantitative data of interest to them will be available
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allow feedback and dialogue with key stakeholders to be programmed in as part of the Ministry’s consultation.
Most of the reporting scheduled will take the form of easy-to-read web-based updates for some of the indicators, known as national environmental report cards.
The timing of each report card depends primarily on data availability, and also reflects, where possible, the policy priorities of the Ministry. Other variables affecting the timing are the availability of staff and a budget to commission or purchase data, and the timely provision of data from the Ministry’s reporting partners.
As well, some indicators will only be reported after major new national datasets become available. For example, most land and soils reporting depends on satellite data from the Land Use and Carbon Analysis System (LUCAS) programme.
Proposed schedule of reporting
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2nd quarter |
3rd quarter |
4th quarter |
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2008 |
Five-yearly state of the environment reporting |
Reporting programme – development work Review of regional council SoE reporting Review of OECD SoE reporting Data stocktake for the core set of national environmental indicators Analysis of RST sector support for SoE reporting |
Reporting programme – development work An independent review of Environment New Zealand 2007 A technical guide to New Zealand’s environmental indicators A guide to the national environmental reporting programme – A reporting framework |
Ongoing reporting Marine protected areas report card1 |
2009 |
Ongoing reporting Air quality (PM10) report card Vehicle-kilometres travelled report card1 National Good Practice Guideline on Air Quality Monitoring and Data Management |
Ongoing reporting Household consumption expenditure report card2 Recreational water quality (freshwater) report card |
Ongoing reporting Energy supply and demand report card2 Solid waste (composition) report card River water quality (physical / chemical) River water quality (biological) Fishing activity (fish stocks) report card Native land cover (protected areas) report card Recreational water quality (coastal) report card |
Ongoing reporting |
2010 |
Ongoing reporting |
Ongoing reporting Native land cover (protected areas) report card Air quality (four pollutants) report card Recreational water quality (freshwater) report card |
Ongoing reporting Environmental Indicators Quarterly newsletter |
Ongoing reporting Air quality (PM10) report card |
| 2011 | Marine protected areas |
Solid waste disposal (volume) report card Recreational water quality (freshwater) report card Recreational water quality (coastal) report card Environmental Indicators Quarterly newsletter |
Air quality (PM10) report card Fishing activity (fish stocks) report card Environmental Indicators Quarterly newsletter |
Solid waste disposal (volume) report card Marine protected areas report card1 Environmental Indicators Quarterly newsletter |
| 2012 | Five-yearly state of the environment reporting – a compilation of the core set of national environmental indicators | |||
(1) This indicator will only be updated if new marine reserves are gazetted. If so, the report will be a 2-page "snapshot" report.
(2) So as to reduce duplication, we will not report on energy, transport and household consumption expenditure indicators until 2012. For energy data see the Ministry of Economic Development’s Energy Data File (www.med.govt.nz/templates/StandardSummary____15169.aspx). For transport indicators see the Ministry of Transport’s Transport Monitoring Indicator Framework and New Zealand Transport Statistics (http://www.transport.govt.nz/ourwork/TMIF/). For household consumption expenditure data (reported as part of the economic indicator, gross domestic product) see (http://search.stats.govt.nz/nav/ct2/economicindicators_grossdomesticproduct/ct1/economicindicators/0). Return to the environmental reporting programme page
Last updated: 26 April 2011
