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James Shaw, Minister for Climate Change and Green Party leader, announces carbon budgets. ANALYSIS: The nation's first Emissions Reduction Plan will be released ...

This will most probably be the biggest and most consequential day of Shaw’s career. It will be delivered by the mild-mannered leader of the Greens, and Climate Change Minister, James Shaw. If the medicine is too strong, but not apparently effective, middle-of-the-road voters may continue to toy with National’s “cost of living crisis campaign”. There will be controversial parts. In other words, the measures that look cool or are included for ideological reasons, but do little to reduce emissions. Today’s plan will yank the economy in a different direction again, embedding emissions reduction at its heart.

Emissions Reduction Plan prepares New Zealand for the future, ensuring country is on track to meet first emissions budget, securing jobs, and unlocking new ...

“Tackling climate change requires the combined effort of government, iwi / Māori, unions, communities, local government, and business. “Over the last four years this Government has put in place a framework for bold, enduring climate action that will reach across governments, across parliaments, and across generations. It’s about take the actions, both large and small, that together add up to a better future for people and for the planet. “The Emissions Reduction Plan is a plan for the whole of New Zealand. The Government will play a key role in getting the system settings right and accelerating the use of low-emissions practices and technologies. “This is a challenge I know New Zealand can succeed in. “We can see around us that climate change is here now.

Low-income families who scrap their old car will get funding to buy a low-emitting vehicle in a $569 million scheme, one of the big-ticket items in the ...

The expanded energy programme aims to cut 17 percent of total emissions required in the next three years, and about a third of emissions reductions required by the end of the decade. This will also help safeguard New Zealand by reducing our international dependency on fossil fuels," Wood said. "There will also be targeted investment at a regional level for projects that optimise low emission fuel use, funding for electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure upgrades to support fuel-switching, and the early adoption of high decarbonisation energy technologies." Some $6.28m of spending would see work on He Waka Eke Noa - a plan worked on in partnership between the government and the industry on how to price agricultural emissions - progressed faster. "It's about determining the most appropriate uses for our whenua, adopting new technology to reduce emissions, and providing on the ground support to make the changes." It said electric vehicles would need to make up 30 percent of the fleet by 2035, and freight emissions would need to be cut by a quarter. That would bring agricultural emissions into pricing from 2025, and there are plans to have farms reporting their emissions by the end of this year, and producing their own mitigation plans by 2025. "The sooner tools are ready for farmers the sooner we move on our goal of biogenic methane reduction of 10 percent by 2030 and 24 to 47 percent by 2050," O'Connor said. - $23m to develop transport programmes for developing strategies for increasing use of active and shared transport As part of its goal of having electric vehicles make up at least 30 percent of the light fleet by 2035, the government will spend $569m from the Climate Emergency Response Fund on a new scheme to help increase the uptake of cleaner cars. - $350m for improving access to low-impact transport like walking, cycling and public transport The plan sets out a strategy to achieve the reductions demanded by the 2022-2025 emissions budget, and includes $2.9b of spending from the $4.5b Climate Emergency Response Fund (CERF) over the next four years, funded through the Emissions Trading Scheme.

The Government will be revealing the way it plans to reduce New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions to eventually reach net zero by 2050.

The party said it would improve the Emissions Trading Scheme instead. Wood said the Budget and the emissions plan would focus on both the short and long term at the same time. Woods said the plan would outline how the money raised through the Emissions Trading Scheme would be spent to reduce emissions domestically.

New Zealand will help some people to buy electric vehicles, end its reliance on fossil fuels, lower agricultural emissions, and reduce waste going to landfill, ...

“As a country with one of the world’s highest per capita emissions, we have a responsibility to do our fair share by taking prompt action to prevent runaway climate change.” One of the most significant initiatives is the clean car upgrade programme, which will support lower and middle income families to transition to low-emission alternatives through a “scrap and replace” trial. The country’s gross emissions per person are high and it is one of the world’s worst performers on emissions increases. “This is a historic day for climate action in Aotearoa,” Shaw said. “This is a landmark day in our transition to a low emissions future,” Jacinda Ardern said in a statement. “The emissions reduction plan delivers the greatest opportunity we’ve had in decades to address climate change,” Ardern said.

A new scrap-and-replace scheme for families to move to EVs and a nationalised curbside waste collection service is part of a significant $2.9b investment ...

They’ve maximised political theatre while actively rejecting the least-cost path to emissions reduction during a cost of living crisis." "The transition will impact some communities, industries and regions more than others. Households are already seeing the impact of escalating petrol prices and this plan sets out practical ways to cut power, transport and energy." An initial trial of up to 2500 vehicles, the new clean car upgrade scheme will help low and middle-income people buy low-emission alternatives in exchange for scrapping their old car. "Forests can provide an abundant, natural resource to store carbon. and decarbonise our freight system". He said New Zealand is on track "to bend the curve of its emission downwards for the first time in history". Overall, $1.2b will go into transport. "We are allocating nearly $339m to accelerate the development of high-impact technologies and practices to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, including the establishment of the new centre for climate action on agricultural emissions." Finance Minister Grant Robertson said we need to prepare for climate change now – or prepare to pay for the cost of inaction for the "rest of our lives, the rest of our children's lives and their children's lives". It said ensuring New Zealand was one of the most sustainable providers of food in the world would be achieved by introducing a price on agricultural emissions from 2025, and "working alongside farmers with advice and technologies". Climate Change Minister James Shaw said it was "going to take all of us and it's going to take everything we've got".

Labour and National have committed to the first three budgets, which cap the amount of greenhouse gas New Zealand can emit over the next 15 years.

"But it is a generational challenge. "We saw a very pastel green approach to environment and I would have expected a party that's in government like this would have been a lot more progressive - a lot more." The government will today reveal its scheme - the Emissions Reduction Plan - to meet the country's very-first emissions budget.

Climate Change Minister James Shaw is today launching a “three-decade-long” economic transition that will fundamentally reshape New Zealand's economy and ...

“What we’re looking for are projects that actually can accelerate our emissions reduction at the least cost. What we're going to be interrogating very closely is the means,” Luxon said on Sunday. The current emissions trading scheme is expected to be further modified and have a less central role in emissions reduction. And now we have a plan to do that.” That’s the measure by which I see my success as a minister,” he said. “It affects how we design our towns and cities, it affects the quality of the houses that we live in.

What actually is the Emissions Reduction Plan? If the three carbon budgets New Zealand just set out to 2035 are our destination, then the long-awaited master ...

"In addition, many of our future trading partners will be looking closely at our track record of reducing emissions and may not buy our products if our emissions continue to be high and we fail to meet the international agreements we have signed up for." Tong said it was "very significant" that National pledged to vote in favour of the emissions budgets – but it still wasn't clear if the party would support the policy detail in the emissions reduction plan itself. Still, he felt the cross-party agreement on the new budgets offered "some level of confidence that most policymakers accept we have a huge problem that has to be resolved". "It sends a signal that we believe in net zero commitments, but we aren't prepared to commit the political capital required to get there." "This will be New Zealand's first long-term, whole-of-government plan to confront the climate crisis – but the emissions budgets that have been announced fall far, far short of our fair share of limiting warming to 1.5C," he said. While the commission had called for the planting of hundreds of thousands of new exotic forestry, the Government recently decided to exclude these from a new category of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), amid concerns that could lead to large areas of land being blanketed in pine. The Government itself has floated a target to get people to travel by car 20 per cent less by 2035 – while also bumping up the number of zero-emission cars in our fleet by a third. To climate change campaigner David Tong, the ERP and the new budgets were both "extraordinarily significant and deeply insufficient". New Zealand, one of some 200 signatories to the Paris Agreement, has separately made an international pledge to halve emissions by the end of the decade. The final carbon budgets confirmed this month, taking us out to 2035, are roughly similar to what the commission recommended nearly a year ago, along with what the Government floated in its own draft version of the ERP. The commission's advice has troublingly told us New Zealand is on track to miss our set 2050 target of net-zero long-lived gases by millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) – and that we can't keep planting our way out of tough action. The Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) represents one of the most important and ambitious steps New Zealand has made to do its bit toward tackling a climate crisis fast approaching the symbolic 1.5C threshold.

Bike Auckland chairperson Tony Mitchell says people won't cycle within cities if it's not safe to do so.

“The Government investment will provide a boost to the funding available to council to deliver many of the initiatives proposed under the CATR – such as improved bus services and better walking and cycling infrastructure. Transport Minister Michael Wood said there was “strong public support” to move quickly on making streets safer for walking and cycling. “So if they're serious about reducing traffic and getting people converted to cycling, then we’re going to need key cycleways that people can get from A to B for the majority of journeys. A 2019 Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency report found fear of riding on the roads was one of the biggest barriers to getting more people on their bikes, with only 24% thinking cycling on public roads with no cycle lanes was safe. So, $350 million for the whole country – and only a portion of that is actually for cycleways – is pretty small.” Of that, $350 million is aimed at getting New Zealanders into what the Government calls “cleaner transport choices” and includes the provision of 100km of safer urban cycleways.

It's fantastic we now have a plan to reduce emissions to meet our goal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees. We are among the few countries to actually establish a ...

Nature-based solutions are essential, but one of Aotearoa’s greatest strengths to meet our climate and biodiversity goals is through our ocean and blue economy. Decades of under-researching and under-investing has meant that less than 1% of our marine and coastal biodiversity is protected, while over 30% of our land is protected. We also know our ocean is already struggling trying to keep up with our current behaviour.

As the Government hails its plan to reduce New Zealand's emissions as a significant landmark, opposition parties remain more sceptical.

"Even worse, there's not so much in the climate justice space to help low income families. There's money in this plan for a trial programme that will see 2500 vehicles clunked, so let's wait and see." Big business can and should be leading the charge." "The plan today is achievable, it means we will meet our first emissions budget. To this end the government will develop an equitable transition strategy including proactive transition planning with Māori and other communities most affected by the transition." A stable climate is not a nice to have. Each budget will act as a stepping stone towards lower emissions, and each plan will include the necessary policies and strategies to meet that budget." It is a must to have for our future and for our economy." They're not the ones who're going to be able to afford EVs and they're not the ones that are going to be able to take on a lot of what has been proposed." In total, there will be six emissions budgets and emissions reductions plans to take us to 2050. No government initiative other than the Budget itself drew on so many different sectors of government. "New Zealand's first emissions reduction plan puts us on a path to meet our long term targets to 2050 in line with that 1.5 degrees temperature threshold ... but of course it's not job done.

Bike Auckland chairperson Tony Mitchell says people won't cycle within cities if it's not safe to to do.

“The Government investment will provide a boost to the funding available to council to deliver many of the initiatives proposed under the CATR – such as improved bus services and better walking and cycling infrastructure. Transport Minister Michael Wood said there was “strong public support” to move quickly on making streets safer for walking and cycling. “So if they're serious about reducing traffic and getting people converted to cycling, then we’re going to need key cycleways that people can get from A to B for the majority of journeys. A 2019 Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency report found fear of riding on the roads was one of the biggest barriers to getting more people on their bikes, with only 24% thinking cycling on public roads with no cycle lanes was safe. So, $350 million for the whole country – and only a portion of that is actually for cycleways – is pretty small.” Of that, $350 million is aimed at getting New Zealanders into what the Government calls “cleaner transport choices” and includes the provision of 100km of safer urban cycleways.

New Zealand's government will help pay for lower-income families to scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cleaner hybrid or electric cars as ...

But the plan remained short on some details, including for the gas guzzler replacement plan, which the government said would be finalised over the coming months. Officials said that over time, money collected from polluters would pay for the programs rather than taxes from households. The plan also sets a target of reducing total car travel by 20 per cent over the next 13 years by offering better transportation options in cities as well as improved options for cyclists and walkers.

As the government hails its plan to reduce New Zealand's emissions as a significant landmark, opposition parties remain more sceptical.

"Even worse, there's not so much in the climate justice space to help low income families. There's money in this plan for a trial programme that will see 2500 vehicles clunked, so let's wait and see." Big business can and should be leading the charge." "The plan today is achievable, it means we will meet our first emissions budget. To this end the government will develop an equitable transition strategy including proactive transition planning with Māori and other communities most affected by the transition." A stable climate is not a nice to have. Each budget will act as a stepping stone towards lower emissions, and each plan will include the necessary policies and strategies to meet that budget." It is a must to have for our future and for our economy." In total, there will be six emissions budgets and emissions reductions plans to take us to 2050. No government initiative other than the Budget itself drew on so many different sectors of government. "New Zealand's first emissions reduction plan puts us on a path to meet our long term targets to 2050 in line with that 1.5 degrees temperature threshold ... but of course it's not job done. "This is it," Minister of Climate Change James Shaw said in his speech today.

Robertson is stepping in for PM Jacinda Ardern at this week's post-Cabinet press conference. Ardern had moderate Covid-19 symptoms today, Robertson said. "She's ...

Luxon has backed the Government's emissions budgets – the amount by which emissions are set to reduce over time. However, he said he was concerned the steps set out to achieve that in the emissions reductions plan would be a "a poor use of taxpayers' money." Earlier, Robertson said it was the "most significant day in our country's history on climate action". "The Government is proposing to give hundreds of millions of dollars to companies for investments they should be making anyway," he said. "So change is coming. Robertson is likely to be asked about National leader Christopher Luxon's response to the plan. "Too much of the new spending will go to corporate welfare and more working groups," Luxon said. Robertson said the Government was working with the agricultural sector on climate change issues. Robertson said there'd be a strong focus on the economy this week, with the Budget to be released on Thursday. On the unveiling of the Government's carbon emissions reduction plan, he said the Government would accelerate its plans to cut New Zealand's carbon emissions. On the recent number of ram raids, the Robertsonsaid the Government was working on ways to directly support businesses to protect themselves. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson says "we must do better, and we must change" , after the recently released report on Cycling NZ following the death of Olivia Podmore.

The deputy PM is expected to be grilled on the new emissions reduction plan and the nation's books ahead of Thursday's Budget.

The announcement this morning included subsidies for big energy users to move away from coal boilers. It provides a blueprint for New Zealand to begin reducing emissions across the entire economy, with a target of net-zero by 2050. * Kiwis set to learn more about how NZ will 'reconnect' with the rest of the world

Subsidies for “clean” transport, a cornerstone of the Government's new $2.9 billion Emissions Reduction Plan, could increase the price of electric vehicles ...

And if there’s more demand at auction for the cars, the price is going to go up.” “As soon as you introduce a subsidy, the price of the goods goes up. This constricted supply for left-hand-drive nations like Australia and New Zealand, he said. “We have vast amounts of land, good rainfall, and quite a few less people than other regions ... We're quite innovative, Southland people ... We’re in a good place to transform,” he said. In the agricultural sector, $339m was allotted for a new Centre for Climate Action on Agricultural Emissions to develop and commercialise products to help farmers reduce emissions. Subsidies for “clean” transport, a cornerstone of the Government’s new $2.9 billion Emissions Reduction Plan, could increase the price of electric vehicles and deter Southlanders from making the switch, an Invercargill car sales company director says.

Set sub-national VKT reduction targets for Aotearoa New Zealand's major urban areas (Tier 1 and 2) by the end of 2022. Revise Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency's ...

Crucially, subsidies for e-bikes would rapidly shift the dial in terms of social license for the street-level changes we so desperately need to make in order to create safe, liveable communities that encourage walking, wheeling, cycling and scooting. “The Clean Car Discount Scheme has been successful in supporting the uptake of electric and hybrid vehicles. As 99% of our vehicle fleet currently runs on fossil fuels and there is no realistic chance of changing that any time soon, the only effective way to reduce New Zealand’s emissions from transport is for New Zealanders to drive less. Developing ‘a national freight and supply chain strategy’ in partnership with industry is indubitably a good idea, and logistics providers are the experts in this area. The language change, too, signals a backing away from any e-bike subsidy. So let’s take a look at what the ERP has in store for transportation, what this could mean, and what sort of impact it might have. This means that any expenditure on EVs represents a substantial opportunity cost away from genuine climate action. The remainder will come from other policy initiatives, including rail, coastal shipping and aviation. It’s important to remember that we can’t reduce overall emissions from transport simply by doing more of something. Starting with an initial trial of up to 2,500 vehicles, the Clean Car Upgrade will provide targeted assistance to lower- and middle- income households to shift to low-emission alternatives in exchange for scrapping their old vehicle.” This leaves far too much wiggle room for uncooperative officials or nervous politicians to escape actually doing something. Both of these, however, still focus on private vehicle ownership/possession.

The Government's Emissions Reduction Plan is flush with incentives for low emissions transport, native tree planting and clean energy in industry but may ...

This would ensure claims of carbon neutrality from the private sector follow specific rules and provide a source of offsets for public sector agencies required to be carbon neutral by 2025. Partly, this will be monitored through the inclusion of biodiversity impacts in reporting on the progress of the Emissions Reduction Plan. A range of measures will also seek to ensure the Government's decisions take climate change into account. It will support new technologies to scale up and engage in applied research beginning in the middle of this year. The Government will also update the Emissions Trading Scheme to better reflect the sequestration benefits of native trees, further incentivising their growth. Overall, the Government will set a target that 50 percent of energy used in New Zealand - which includes electricity but also petrol, diesel, coal, gas and oil - will come from renewable sources by 2035. New coal boilers will be banned by the end of the year and existing low- and medium-temperature ones will be phased out by 2037. The Government also hopes to make sure consumers with at-home solar panels will be able to sell power back to the grid and receive fair compensation for it. Some parts of the plan don’t require additional funding, others will be paid for from government agencies’ existing baseline budgets and the remainder will have to seek resourcing in future Budgets. The Government will review whether it has the right regulatory tools to incentivise investment in renewable electricity generation. No funding for an extension of the scheme was announced on Monday, but further investments from the CERF are expected to be made in Thursday's Budget. Low- and middle-income families would be paid to turn in their fossil fuel vehicles and buy low emissions alternatives with the cash.

Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson gives details in the Government's emission reduction plan. Henry Cooke is Stuff's chief political reporter. OPINION: The ...

Instead, two decades after the first proposal to fund research into agricultural emissions saw farmers drive their tractors up the steps of Parliament, we are once again funding research into agricultural emissions – this time with funds from the Emissions Trading Scheme farmers are not actually required to pay into. Climate policy is hard, and supposedly the listed policies will get us there, under an optimistic scenario. And it’s not like the Government is coming from a standing start here. Sometimes these plans to have plans cut off potentially interesting policy – there is talk of subsidising e-bikes or public transport, but both of these are kicked into the long grass, with the scope of said intervention still to be decided. But there is really an awful lot of decision-making that this plan says is needed but actually hasn’t happened yet. Sure, this might in some tangential way contribute to climate policy – but it’s hardly a step change.

Low-income families who scrap their old cars will get funding to buy a low-emitting vehicle in a $569 million scheme, one of the big-ticket items in the ...

Is there a mileage limit?" A spokesperson for the group said the wider Emissions Reduction Plan was "a continuation of an individualised culture and a focus on car ownership" rather than public transport, "which is what we need". Is there an age limit? "The sheer carbon emissions associated with running cars, the life cycle of a car and all the infrastructure that goes with it - like highways and more spread-out infrastructure for water and wastewater ... when you start to add it all up, cars are pretty much a disaster." Its energy and environment manager Ian Baggott said it would be a challenge for the Government to determine the criteria for scrappage. The money will not just be for electric vehicles - it could also help buy an e-bike or could be in the form of public transport vouchers.

The government has released its first plan on how to get to zero carbon emissions by 2050. The Emissions Reduction Plan proposes economy-wide changes to ...

“The key areas of waste in the building and construction sector are in the design, procurement and onsite stages. “Targeting food and hospitality businesses to reduce food waste and separate out organic waste can make a significant difference, provided the cost of separation is not exorbitant. “In the middle of the climate crisis and with cost of living a major issue, Aotearoa cannot afford to yet again be making piecemeal moves that will fail to reduce emissions and make homes more expensive to heat. “The proposed reductions in energy emissions will be challenging and require a significant transformation in both infrastructure and behaviour. “GNS supports the intent of the Emissions Reduction Plan as the first steps of Aotearoa / New Zealand’s path to net zero by 2050. “The good news from today’s release of our first emissions reduction plan is that we finally have the legal and political infrastructure to drive the transition to a sustainable and equitable low-emissions economy. But if it is to faster develop, commercialise, and enable uptake of emissions mitigation technologies those responsible for the new Centre will need to be familiar with science-led industry adoption of new and innovative technologies. “It’s easy to be cynical, but I do feel quietly optimistic, that finally this is an emissions plan that starts us as a nation on a new journey of clearly reporting and measuring the difference we are making for our climate and our community. We need our representatives to set limits to the growth of corporations and focus on prosperity for all. We know that greenhouse gases must be halved by 2030 if we are to keep the hope of a climate-stable world alive, and emissions of short-lived, high-impact gases including methane must fall even faster. “This Emissions Reduction Plan won’t grab votes but as a nation we have to take long term practical steps to fundamentally change our economy, the way we live our lives, build our homes and protect our people. “Where are the essential changes to the Building Code that we know has been in need of major review for several years?