Environment

Key New Zealand international climate change documents

On this page you can download key documents relating to New Zealand’s international climate change negotiations and activities:

Submissions to the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP):

June 2009	New Zealand proposal for amendment to the Kyoto Protocol (PDF 54KB)
May 2009	Further submission: Possible improvements to emissions trading and the project-based mechanisms (PDF 171KB)
May 2009	Potential consequences (PDF 148KB)
April 2009	Possible improvements to emissions trading and the project-based mechanisms (PDF 840KB)
April 2009	Long term global goal (PDF 31KB)
April 2009	Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) (PDF 502KB)
March 2009	Kyoto Protocol Issues (PDF 31KB)
February 2009	Legal issues (PDF 30KB)
February 2009	LULUCF (PDF 231KB)
February 2009	Improvements to emissions trading and the project-based mechanisms (PDF 43KB)
September 2008	Mitigation potential and targets (PDF 486KB)

Submissions to the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA):

May 2009	Nationally appropriate mitigation actions in developing countries and the carbon market (PDF 30KB)
May 2009	Impact of response measures (PDF 141KB)
April 2009	Ideas and proposals on elements of paragraph 1 of the Bali Action Plan, including on the form of the agreed outcome (PDF 608KB)
April 2009	Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD) (PDF 156KB)
September 2008	Overview comments on the Bali Action Plan (PDF 121KB)
September 2008	A shared vision, including a long-term global goal (PDF 90KB)
September 2008	Mitigation (PDF 1.4MB)
September 2008	Cooperation on research and development of current, new and innovative technologies, including win-win solutions (PDF 125KB)
September 2008	Measurable, reportable and verifiable actions (PDF 166KB)
September 2008	Enhanced action on finance (PDF 145KB)