Environment
Climate Change
New Zealand's negotiating position
New Zealand’s international climate change policy provides the following overarching guidance:
- Seek an environmentally effective and economically efficient long-term global agreement to meet the objective of the UNFCCC
- Seek appropriate and effective mitigation action by all developed countries and by major emitting and advanced developing countries
- Commit New Zealand to a fair contribution to global mitigation efforts, securing recognition of its national circumstances
- Commit New Zealand to an appropriate level of financial and technology support for developing country mitigation and adaptation actions
- Seek an international framework that allows New Zealand to contribute according to its national circumstances
- Ensure that rules for accounting and for the flexibility mechanisms are certain before commitments are finalised
- Seek improved greenhouse gas inventories, reporting and review procedures, in particular by major emitting developing countries, and
- Seek solutions that recognise the vulnerability of Pacific Island countries to climate change.
More background is available on the Ministry for the Environment website [external link].
Page last updated: Monday, 31 October 2011 11:34 NZDT