Aotearoa New Zealand's First Emissions Reduction Plan - Te hau mārohi ki anamata - Towards a productive, sustainable and inclusive economy.

The Te hau mārohi ki anamata - Towards a productive, sustainable and inclusive economy (2022) is Aotearoa New Zealand’s first emissions reduction Plan. It contains strategies, policies and actions for achieving first emissions budget, as required by the Climate Change Response Act 2002. In doing so, it also outlines how New Zealand intend to play its part in global efforts to limit warming to 1.5˚C above pre-industrial levels. This Plan responds to the recommendations of He Pou a Rangi – Climate Change Commission (the Commission) in its report, Ināia tonu nei; it also builds on the Productivity Commission’s 2018 report, Low-emissions economy and the Interim Climate Change Committee’s 2019 reports Accelerated electrification and Action on agricultural emissions. The strategy, and this Plan to execute it, is based on five principles: 1) Playing our part. 2) Empowering Māori: the Government will work with Māori to embed partnership and representation, to support Māori-led strategy and alignment and to enable community action. 3) Equitable transition - it is built around five objectives: seize the opportunities of the transition, support proactive transition planning, enable an affordable and inclusive transition, build the evidence base and tools to monitor and assess impacts and encourage informed public participation. 4) Working with nature - To tackle the climate and biodiversity crises together, the Government will prioritise nature-based solutions in planning and regulatory system, report on biodiversity as part of emissions reduction plan reporting, establish an integrated work programme that delivers climate, biodiversity and wider environmental outcomes and encourage global efforts to use nature-based solutions. 5) A productive, sustainable and inclusive economy - this last outcome requires actions across the whole economy and interventions through economy-wide tools (emission pricing, funding and finance, planning and infrastructure, research, science innovation and technology, circular economy and bioeconomy)
The Plan also envisages actions under specific sectors, due to their impact on greenhouse gas emission, these are: Transport, Energy and industry, Building and infrastructure, Agriculture, Forestry, Waste, Fluorinated Gases. In particular key actions for Agricultural sector are: price agricultural emissions; accelerate mitigation technologies by establishing a new Centre for Climate Action on Agricultural Emissions; support producers to make changes through funds and introduction of climate-focused extension and advisory services; transition to lower-emissions land uses and systems. In Forestry key actions include the following areas: support afforestation by considering amendments to the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS), supporting landowners and others to undertake afforestation, particularly for erodible land and providing advisory services to land users, councils, Māori and other stakeholders to support choices for sustainable afforestation; encourage native forests as long-term carbon sinks through reducing costs and improving incentives: maintain existing forests by exploring options to reduce deforestation and encourage forest management practices that increase carbon stocks in pre-1990 forests; grow the forestry and wood processing industry to deliver more value from low-carbon products, while delivering jobs for communities. Under Waste actions are focused on organic waste management and gas capture from land fields.