Te hau mārohi ki anamata - Transitioning to a low-emissions and climate-resilient future: AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND'S LONG-TERM LOW-EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

Category: UNFCCC

Document Type: Long-Term Low-Emission Development Strategy

Role: Main

New Zealand's 2021 Long-Term Low-Emissions Development Strategy outlines vision and plan towards a climate-resilient future.

Te hau mārohi ki anamata – Transitioning to a low-emissions and climate-resilient future is Aotearoa New Zealand's Long-Term Low-Emissions Development Strategy, published in November 2021 by the Ministry for the Environment. The document serves as the first part of New Zealand's emissions reduction plan, setting out the long-term vision for transitioning to a low-emissions and climate-resilient future in response to the urgency of the climate crisis and the unanimous passing of the Zero Carbon Act 2019. Its purpose is to outline how sectors and systems across the economy will contribute to this vision and to set the scene for detailed policies and strategies to follow. The scope covers the long-term vision, system settings, sector plans, and equitable transition, while also describing national circumstances. Key obligations include a commitment to achieving emissions budgets and playing a part in global climate action aligned with the Paris Agreement temperature goals. The strategy involves a collective effort from central and local government, iwi and hapū, businesses, households, communities, and all economic sectors (though specific sectors are detailed in subsequent plans). A key deadline mentioned is the requirement to publish the full emissions reduction plan by 31 May 2022, which will detail how the first emissions budget will be achieved and address potential impacts on employers, employees, regions, iwi, Māori, and wider communities. The document references the Zero Carbon Act 2019 and the Paris Agreement.

Te hau mārohi ki anamata
Transitioning to a low-emissions
and climate-resilient future
AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND’S LONG-TERM
LOW-EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

Published in November 2021
by the Ministry for the Environment
Manatū Mō Te Taiao
PO Box 10362, Wellington 6143,
New Zealand
ISBN: 978-1-99-003393-3
Publication number: ME 1607
© Crown copyright New Zealand 2021
This document is available on the
Ministry for the Environment website:
environment.govt.nz

CONTENTS
A message from the Minister of Climate Change 4
Transitioning to a low-emissions
and climate-resilient future 5
Emissions budgets and emissions reduction plans 11
Our current reality 16
Empower New Zealanders 24
Our long-term emissions reduction strategy 28
System settings 30
Sector plans 44
Equitable transition 60
Next steps 62
Glossary 63

A message from
the Minister of
Climate Change
In Aotearoa New Zealand, tens of thousands We are currently consulting on proposals
have taken to our streets in climate strikes, for the emissions reduction plan, which
focusing attention on the climate crisis and must be published by 31 May 2022. This
demanding greater urgency. This is reflected will set out how we will achieve the first
across the political spectrum, with Parliament emissions budget, while also alleviating
unanimously passing the Zero Carbon Act the impacts policies may have on employers
in 2019. and employees, regions, iwi and Māori,
and wider communities. It is critical
The private sector is also mobilising, with
that New Zealanders have a say in how
companies individually and collectively
we move to a low-emissions and climate-
committing to measuring and reporting their
resilient future.
emissions, adopting emissions reduction

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