New Zealand on track to meet Target 9
New Zealand is now ‘on track’ to meet both parts of the Government’s public sector target to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions.
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- Government Targets [DPMC]
- Target 9 reports and technical annexes
- Factsheet - Target 9 [PDF, 95KB] [DPMC website]
Last year, the Government set nine targets to focus the public sector on improved results in health, education, law and order, work, housing and the environment.
Target 9 is to reduce emissions. The target has two parts which relate to meeting New Zealand’s first and second emissions budgets.
New Zealand sets emissions budgets – limits on the amount of emissions we produce in a period of time – to step us towards our 2050 net zero goals.
Progress is reported quarterly. The latest progress report is for the quarter ending December 2024, and includes the projected impacts of the second emissions reduction plan.
The Government released its second emissions reduction plan in December. The plan covers 2026 to 2030 and contains targeted actions in the sectors of our economy that produce the greatest emissions: agriculture, transport, energy and waste. It also includes other areas such as the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme and sustainable finance.
Updated emissions projections were published with the second emissions reduction plan. These projections give confidence that New Zealand remains ‘on track’ to achieve our first emissions budget and meet the first part of Target 9.
The projections also give confidence that New Zealand can meet our second emissions budget, with the implementation of the policies and initiatives in the second emissions reduction plan. As a result, this part of the target has been upgraded to ‘on track’, from a previous assessment of ‘probable’.
Following the release of the second emissions reduction plan, effort is now focused on implementing its policies.