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The Framework for a New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme

Ministerial Foreword

Executive Summary

1 Introduction: The Government’s Decision on Emissions Trading

2 The Context for New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Framework

3 The Rationale for Emissions Trading

4 Core Design Features

5 How Emission Units are Allocated

6 Design Features for Individual Sectors

7 The Impacts of the Emissions Trading Scheme

8 Emissions Trading:Issues for Māori

9 Approach to Legislation for the Emissions Trading Scheme

List of Abbreviations

Glossary

Annex: Activity and Mandatory Participant Table

 

 

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