What is Central Government Doing?

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New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme

The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) is a key tool for meeting our domestic and international climate change targets, including the 2050 target set by the Climate Change Response Act 2002.

Read about New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme on the Ministry for the Environment website

Primary Industries

Climate change affects all producers (farmers, growers, foresters, fishers), the communities that support them, and the broader New Zealand economy. Find out about climate change and the actions the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is taking.

Read about Climate change and the primary industries on the MPI website on the MPI website

National Science and Research Initiatives

Climate research can be complex and challenging and isn’t always well integrated in planning and decision making. For this reason, we engage closely with central and regional government, whānau, hapū and iwi, business, infrastructure, and industry, we make sure our research us useful and usable.

Read more about the Deep South Initiative on the Deep South website