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Negotiations
- Active engagement in the key discussions and negotiations on the future international framework.
- Development of New Zealand positions on key issues in the negotiations, including future emission reduction targets
Science
- New Zealand input to the IPCC
Reporting
- Managing New Zealand’s annual inventory of greenhouse gas emissions and removals to meet UNFCCC and Kyoto requirements
- Development of the LUCAS (land-use and carbon analysis system) to meet Kyoto and UNFCCC reporting requirements and other “all of Government” benefits
- Producing New Zealand’s 5th national communication under the UNFCCC to be submitted 1/1/2010
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- Climate Change Response Act
- Near-term development of regulations for forestry, liquid fossil fuels, stationary energy and industrial process sectors, and unit register regulations, and regulations on surrender of imported assigned amount units; longer-term development of regulations for agriculture, waste and synthetic gases sectors
- Near-term development of allocation plans for forestry, stationary energy and industrial process sectors; longer-term development of allocation plans for fishing and agriculture sectors
- Ongoing engagement with Technical Advisory Groups
- Development of framework for monitoring and review
- Emission unit register and ETS administration
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Please also refer to sector specific information below.
- Coordinating central government agencies
- Managing the implications of structural change
- Co-benefits of mitigation policies
- Cost-effective mitigation that will not be tapped by the NZ ETS
- Socio-economic impacts of the NZ ETS and wider climate change policies to 2028
- 41 Projects to Reduce Emissions (PRE) and 2 Negotiated Greenhouse Agreements
- Enhanced eco-verification
- Carbon Neutral Public Service
- Pilot projects to establish and enhance forest carbon sinks on public conservation land
- Business opportunities
- Purchasing strategy for Kyoto credits to ensure New Zealand achieves its commitments
- Sustainable Land Management and Climate Plan of Action
- Permanent Forest Sink Initiative
- Energy efficiency fund ($1b over 15 yrs)
- Trade exposed technology innovation contestable fund (150,000 NZU per annum)
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- Public awareness campaigns:
- Ecowise Travel Guide
- EnergyWise
- Choke the Smoke
- Roll-out of the Climate Change Bill – seminars and workshops in development
- Relaunch of www.climatechange.govt.nz in August 08
- All-of-government Climate Change Communications Plans.
- Communications Plan for Forestry in the NZ ETS – developed and being implemented
- Climate Change Plan of Action Communications Strategy for the primary sector – developed and being implemented
- Climate Change Leadership Forum
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Impacts
- Update of Local Government and Climate Change guidance
- Update of Coastal Hazards and Climate Change guidance
- Climate Change and Flooding guidance ‘Flow Box’ techniques for climate change and flooding
Adaptation
- MAF 5-year adaptation programme in partnership with the land-based sector
- Community Irrigation Fund
- Update of Quality Planning guidance on climate change (www.qp.org.nz)
- National Environmental Standard (Sea Level Rise)
- Adaptation toolbox items
- Online resource for adaptation
- Urban adaptation
- Adaptation in education
- Stakeholder engagement
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- Fast Forward –$700million
- Marine Energy Fund –- $8 million
- Low carbon energy technologies fund – $12million
- Wild Animal Control for Emissions Reduction (WACEM) Programme
- Understanding and Adapting to Global Process and Change – $2.6 million per annum for 3 years to 4 programmes on: Reducing Impacts of Climate Change on the Urban and Built Environment; Enhancing Human Health Resilience to Climate Variation and Change; Community Vulnerability and Resilience; Wave and Storm Surge Projections.
- Geothermal funding: $0.5 million over 3.25 years on Low Enthalpy Geothermal Energy
- Livestock Emissions and Abatement Research Network (LEARN)
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- Projecting and reporting New Zealand’s balance of units over the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol
- Projecting and reporting revenue flows resulting from the NZ ETS
- Projecting New Zealand emissions to calculate the impact of negotiation positions for the second commitment period
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