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Amendments to the Climate Change Response Act 2002 (CCRA) under the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Act 2023

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The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is consulting on a set of 3 proposals to make temporary changes to forestry in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZETS) in response to the recent severe weather which has impacted the North Island.

The Minister of Climate Change and the Minister of Forestry have identified that 3 temporary changes to the CCRA and one temporary change to the forestry regulations can assist in the purposes of the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Act 2023. These changes will assist forestry participants in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in managing the impacts of the severe weather events.

The changes are:

  • extending the deadlines by which forestry participants must submit notices and emissions returns
  • extending the deadlines by which forestry participants must meet unit surrender obligations
  • ensuring that forest land currently in the Permanent Forest Sink Initiative (PFSI) can access the Temporary Adverse Event (TAE) suspensions available for other forest land in the ETS after it transitions to the ETS.

This engagement opened on 2 May and closes at noon on 10 May 2023.

Engagement document

Amendments to the Climate Change Response Act 2002 under the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Act 2023 [PDF, 239 KB]

Related information

Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Act 2023 – New Zealand Legislation

Making a submission

Email your feedback on the draft document by noon on 10 May 2023 to etsforestrychanges@mpi.govt.nz.

While we prefer email, you can send your submission by post to:

Attention: SWERLA proposals
Forestry and Land Management Directorate
Ministry for Primary Industries
PO Box 2526
Wellington 6140
New Zealand.

Submissions are public information

Note that all, part, or a summary of your submission may be published on this website. Most often this happens when we issue a document that reviews the submissions received.

People can also ask for copies of submissions under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). The OIA says we must make the content of submissions available unless we have good reason for withholding it. Those reasons are detailed in sections 6 and 9 of the OIA.

If you think there are grounds to withhold specific information from publication, make this clear in your submission or contact us. Reasons may include that it discloses commercially sensitive or personal information. However, any decision MPI makes to withhold details can be reviewed by the Ombudsman, who may direct us to release it.

Official Information Act 1982 – NZ Legislation

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