Carbon Neutral Government Programme (CNGP)

Details of the request

1. Is your agencies continuing to pursue the carbon neutral public service targets?
   1. If so please provide any documents showing how this is being implemented.
2. A list of emissions reduction initiatives implemented or planned since the first year of CNGP emissions reporting, including asset procurement and replacement, that includes the following information:
   1. A description of the initiative
   2. Any business needs that the initiative meets other than CNGP requirements
   3. The upfront cost of the initiative, broken down by year if it is multi-year expenditure, noting if it includes capital expenditure
   4. Any ongoing annual costs associated with this initiative
   5. Any cost-savings associated with this initiative, whether they are upfront or realised annually.
3. Total EV’s brought since the targets were implemented broken down by year?
   1. Please provide notes on type of car.
   2. how many PHEVs and how many BEVs
   3. the make and model of each vehicle (e.g. Honda Civic)
   4. how many light vehicles and how many heavy vehicles
   5. the body style of each vehicle (e.g., hatchback, van, station wagon)
4. Total spent on agency emissions inventories by year since the financial year that your agency was first required to report emissions for.
   1. Please provide the most recent inventory.
5. How much is spent on voluntary carbon offsets for every year since your agency first reported its emissions to the CNGP? (Not the ETS)
   1. Please provide expenditure on consultants for this and please provide the total tonnes of CO2 (tCO2-e) offset annually.
   2. Any reduction initiatives involving Agricultural emissions.

Released documents

• Ministry for the Environment’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Management Report 2023/24 (PDF, 4 MB)

OIA@mfe.govt.nz