Te whakarāpopototanga tuihono o Te Rārangi Haurehu Kati Mahana a Aotearoa 1990–2019 New Zealand's Greenhouse Gas Inventory Snapshot 1990–2019

Ko Te Rārangi Haurehu Kati Mahana te whakatau tata ā-tau e ōkawa ana mō ki ngā haurehu kati mahana nā te tangata i whakaputa, i tango anō hoki i Aotearoa. He whakarāpopototanga tēnei o te rārangi hou e titiro ana ki ngā tau mai i te 1990 ki te 2019.
The Greenhouse Gas Inventory is the official annual estimate of all human-generated greenhouse gas emissions and removals in New Zealand. This is a summary of the latest Inventory which covers the years 1990–2019.
The Inventory measures New Zealand’s progress against obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. The Inventory adheres to the UNFCCC reporting guidelines and the international methodology guidelines set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The Inventory contains information about sectors (Agriculture, Energy, Industrial Processes and Product Use (IPPU), Waste, Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) and Other (Tokelau), as well as Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry under the Kyoto Protocol (KP-LULUCF)).
The Ministry for the Environment is the lead agency responsible for producing the Inventory, but preparing and compiling the Inventory is a cross-government effort. The Inventory report is submitted about 15 months after the end of the calendar year being reported on, providing time for the data to be collected, processed and analysed.
New Zealand’s Inventory data are used for both international and domestic reporting. The Inventory informs New Zealand’s policy recommendations on climate change and enables monitoring of progress towards emissions reduction targets.
To learn more about how New Zealand reports and measures progress towards our targets and other emissions reporting, go to our webpage on New Zealand’s emissions reduction targets.
The greenhouse gas emissions covered in the Inventory include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases.
The Inventory follows a process of continuous improvement. The whole Inventory time series, from the base year (1990) to the latest year, is recalculated when the methodology or underlying data change. This means the emissions estimates are only up to date in the latest Inventory, and previous inventories are not useful for comparisons. Changes made to the Inventory are often related to improvements in activity data collection, emission factors and methodology, or the identification of additional emission sources.
Read the long description for Breakdown of New Zealand’s gross greenhouse gas emissions by sector and gas type in 2019
Figure 1 is a horizontal bar graph that shows a breakdown of New Zealand’s gross greenhouse gas emissions by sector and gas type in 2019. Emissions and gases are represented in percentages.
In particular, it shows:
Clouds are used to represent the breakdown of greenhouse gases by type in 2019. In particular, it shows:
Te whakarāpopototanga tuihono o Te Rārangi Haurehu Kati Mahana a Aotearoa 1990–2019 New Zealand's Greenhouse Gas Inventory Snapshot 1990–2019
April 2021
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