Election 2023 - Climate Change Policy
Act
Spokesperson:
Simon Court
Link to
policy here
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Simon Court
- ACT will ask politicians to pledge to cut flights to Wellington by 25 percent.
- Repeal the Zero Carbon Act, including the Climate Change Commission, and instead tie New Zealand’s emissions cap to our trading partners’ emissions so New Zealand businesses can be competitive overseas.
- Scrap unrealistic targets set by Jacinda Ardern and James Shaw to reduce net emissions by 50 per cent below gross 2005 levels by 2030.
- Return Emissions Trading Scheme revenues to New Zealanders through a carbon tax refund.
- Repeal virtue signalling laws and spending that have no effect on climate change because the ETS caps emissions - like the oil and gas ban, 100 per cent renewable electricity generation, the Clean Car Discount, and any spending on mitigation in areas that are covered by the ETS.
- Allow overseas mitigation.
- Adopt a split gas emissions reporting approach which accurately reflects the actual warming effect of methane emissions.
- Ensure farmers are able to offset all on-farm sequestration from their emissions liability.
- Remove barriers stalling the uptake of emissions reducing technologies.
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Green Party
Spokesperson:
James Shaw
Link to
policy here
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James Shaw
- Support the autnomy and self-determination of whanau/hapu/iwi and Maori businesses to develop their own climate change adaptation plans, and ensure that sufficient funding and other resources are provided to redress ineqalutites as Maori seek to develop those plans, and to implement them.
- Require that all government policies and actions, the legislated emissions reduction targets and our Nationally Determines COntribution, are transparent, credible, fair and align with our global obligation to restrict global warming to within 1.5 degrees celsius of pre-industrial levels with no overshoot.
- Support and resource the establishment of Tiriti-based citizens, and empower them to recommend their own climate adaptation plans based on Just Transition principles.
- Rapidle phase out the dependence of our economic systems on fossil fuels and economic growth.
- Update all New Zealanders with the latest climate change-related evidence.
- Read more here
Labour
Spokesperson:
Chris Hipkins
Link to
policy here
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Chris Hipkins
- A second Emissions Reduction Plan that puts New Zealand on the path to achieving the Second Emissions Budget.
- Establishing a Minister for Just Transitions to oversee New Zealand’s transition to a low emissions economy.
- Delivering Empowering New Zealand: a 12-point plan to increase renewable electricity generation.
- Supporting the growth of NZ Green Investment Finance by investing a further $300m, bringing our total commitment to $1bn.
- Making climate change a research and development priority with an initial investment of $50 million, and a further $20 million specifically to tackle challenging parts of the economy.
- Removing diesel generators from all schools.
- Increasing our resilience as we build back from the severe weather events earlier this year and delivering a new climate adaptation and managed retreat framework to support local communities to plan, prevent and re-build.
- A Labour Government will ensure low- waste circular values are at the heart of a smart modern economy and protected environment.
- Labour will prevent more food waste from going to landfills, phase out hard-to-recycle single-use plastics, modernise recycling and landfills, deliver on our waste strategy, pass new waste legislation, resume work on a container return scheme, and progress several other waste minimisation initiatives.
- Read more here
National
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.
New Zealand First
Spokesperson:
Link to
policy here
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- Support an evidence based approach to complex environmental issues where it is often challenging to achieve the correct balance.
- Advocate that government and industry work together to achieve better environmental outcomes.
- Support the 1 billion trees strategy while ensuring that native species play an important part in the planting strategy.
- Address pollution of streams, rivers, and beaches.
- Halt creation of any new landfills and urgently advance work on the development of rubbish disposal alternatives through conducting a nationwide recycling and recovery strategy.
- Develop a nationwide Waste-to-Energy strategy.
- Read more here
TOP
Spokesperson:
Ben Peters
Link to
policy here
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Ben Peters
- Reviewing urban planning & development practices to ensure our future homes and communities are not built in harm’s way.
- Urban greening programmes to manage heat in our cities.
- Green finance, e.g. New Zealand Green Investment Finance.
- Products and partnerships with the insurance industry to ensure support for those New Zealanders impacted by severe weather events.
- Ensuring national security and disaster relief capabilities are fit for purpose.
- Developing a policy for supporting internal and external climate refugees.
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Te Pāti Māori
Spokesperson:
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Rawiri Waititi
Link to
policy here
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Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Rawiri Waititi
- End new onshore oil and gas permits and withdraw existing onshore and offshore oil and gas permits within five years and aim to decommission sites by 2030.
- Ban seabed mining permits nationwide and withdraw existing seabed mining permits.
- Establish dedicated $1bn Pūngao Auaha fund for Māori-owned community energy projects and solar panel and insulation instillations on marae, kura, homes and papakāinga housing developments.
- Work alongside interested whānau, hapū and iwi to develop a national Māori strategy for renewable energy and clean technology and ensure the Crown supports Māori-led clean technology projects with R&D, start-up funding, and partnership finance.
- Phase out synthetic nitrogen fertiliser on farms by 2025 and bring methane emissions from agriculture into the ETS to disincentivise intensive methane-emitting agriculture.
- Establish $300m Mātai Ahuwhenua innovation and support fund to incentivise Māori farmers to transition to regenerative and value-add farming practises.
- Read more here