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].