Request for meeting documents from CNGP and the Climate Change Chief Executives Board

Climate Change Chief Executives Board

The proactively released material includes four meeting packs of the Climate Change Chief Executives Board, and two meeting packs of the Climate Response Ministers Group (CRMG). These two CRMG meeting packs discuss emissions projections and whether emissions budgets are likely to be met.

The release contains a large amount of material, including Board papers and the Board’s advice to CRMG.
In the material provided for the 11 April CRMG meeting, the Board advised that we are no longer on track to meet the first emissions budget. This finding was in response to the Board’s first six-monthly report on progress in the Emissions Reductions Plan, published in February stating that meeting the first emissions budget is “finely balanced”. This report was based on data and insights from December 2022. The December data also did not include the estimated abatement impact from a number of policies in the Emissions Reduction Plan.

Subsequently in May 2023, the Board’s advice was that New Zealand would land within the first emissions budget. This advice followed further analysis of policy impacts and the effect of methodological improvements to the way emissions are calculated, based on new data published in April 2023. Methodological improvements are made annually, to ensure emissions data remains accurate as new information and methods become available. The content in this meeting pack explains the effects of these methodological changes on whether New Zealand is on track to meet emissions budgets. 

This material includes four meeting packs of the Climate Change Chief Executives Board, and two meeting packs of the Climate Response Ministers Group (CRMG).

Board meeting packs

• 3.29 Board meeting pack
• 4.17 Board meeting pack
• 5.31 Board meeting pack
• 6.29 Board meeting pack

CRMG meeting packs

• 4.11 CRMG meeting pack
• 5.31 CRMG meeting pack