Our work affects all New Zealanders, and it’s important that our work is informed by a broad range of feedback and perspectives as we develop and finalise our advice. We received a variety of submissions from individuals, community groups, NGOs, research institutions, businesses and industry bodies, representing a wide range of sectors.
Submissions covered all three topics:
More information about this call for evidence is available further down this page.
We will review and consider every piece of evidence we received, and use it where appropriate to inform our analysis. We will then develop the three pieces of draft advice focused on Aotearoa New Zealand's options for contributing to the global effort under the Paris Agreement to limit global average temperature increase to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels.
These three pieces of draft advice will open for consultation, likely (but not yet confirmed) in April/May 2024.
We share updates about our mahi, including opportunities to get involved, on our main website and on our social media channels.
If you would like to receive email updates about these three projects, please contact us at hello@climatechangecommission.govt.nz.
We are calling for evidence on Aotearoa New Zealand's emissions reduction targets and emissions budgets.
Submissions to this call for evidence will contribute to three areas of work that are currently underway:
All three of these are focused on Aotearoa New Zealand's options for contributing to the global effort under the Paris Agreement to limit global average temperature increase to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels.
You can share your evidence with us using this online survey. If you would prefer to send us your evidence by mail, our address is:
Call for evidence: emissions reduction targets and emissions budgets
Climate Change Commission
PO Box 24448
Wellington 6142
If you have any questions about completing this call for evidence, you can reach us by email at haveyoursay@climatecommission.govt.nz.
The Commission's functions are set out in the Climate Change Response Act and include a requirement to review and advise on the 2050 target and emissions budgets.
Engagement is at the heart of what we do. We will be engaging widely with people on our advice. This is the first stage in the process, and there will be other opportunities to feed into our work.
We are running this call for evidence now as we build our evidence base to inform our analysis and draft advice. Final advice on the three projects is due to be delivered to the Minister of Climate Change by 31 December 2024. To ensure sufficient time for careful consideration of a wide range of evidence, we are seeking your submissions now.
We are looking for high-quality, credible evidence, across the broad spectrum of knowledge including Western science and evidence from an ao Māori view and mātauranga Māori, that will support the Commission's work on Aotearoa New Zealand's climate change emissions reduction targets and emissions budgets.
We are not looking for views or opinions through this call for evidence – these will be sought through other avenues over the course of our work. Further details on the sort of information we are seeking are included in the response form.
If you have already submitted evidence as part of consultation run by Government agencies or another process that you think we should know about, please direct us to those submissions. It would be helpful to note the key information or material that relates to our call for evidence.
We will use this information to inform our initial work on Aotearoa New Zealand's climate change emissions reduction targets and emissions budgets, and add to the evidence base the Commission considers. We may publish all or part of written responses, including the names of respondents, on our website (https://www.climatecommission.govt.nz) or on this site (https://haveyoursay.climatecommission.govt.nz).
We will use the evidence we have gathered to support the development of our advice. If you have indicated that you would like to receive updates about this work, you will receive an email from us about our progress. You can also keep up to date with our work programme on our website.
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