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Vote Climate Change and Energy Efficiency: Output Class: Carbon Monitoring Programme
This output class involves the implementation of the New Zealand Carbon Monitoring Programme to ensure our land use, land use change and forestry data in our greenhouse gas inventory and entering the carbon accounting system, is robust, meets international requirements and underpins the economic return on sink credits.
Performance measures
Outputs in this class were provided within the appropriated sum and within the timeframes as specified in the Estimates (unless otherwise stated). Performance measures were specified for each output as appropriate.
Drafting instructions were completed subject to timeframes set in the Government's Legislative Programme.
All outputs were delivered to the Ministers' specifications. Orders in Council and regulations were intra vires and in accordance with principal statutes.
Resources employed
|
Actual |
Actual |
Main estimates |
Supplementary estimates |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Revenue: |
||||
|
0 |
Crown |
3,400 |
3,700 |
3,400 |
|
0 |
Total revenue |
3,400 |
3,700 |
3,400 |
|
0 |
Total expenses |
3,244 |
3,700 |
3,400 |
|
0 |
Net surplus |
156 |
0 |
0 |
Service performance
The 2003/04 Estimates contain one output in output class: Policy Advice: Carbon Monitoring Programme.
Review of output achievements
Continue to develop the carbon monitoring programme to meet New Zealand's obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and beyond
Achieved and ongoing. The development of the New Zealand Carbon Accounting System (NZCAS) is principally designed to meet good practice guidance in our international climate change reporting obligations (UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol), and to help manage of New Zealand's domestic climate change policies. The NZCAS can also help meet some of the other international reporting needs of government and help other parts of central and local governments in meeting other environmental objectives.
The cross government Steering Committee for the NZCAS is chaired by NZ Climate Change Office and met for the first time on 29 January 2004. A Technical Advisory Group was established to provide technical and research input to the NZCAS development.
Over 700 permanent plots have been established in the indigenous forest and shrublands, and an inventory methodology is about to be tested for exotic forests planted after 1990.
