Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service works closely with a wide range of people from across the forestry and wood processing sector. We take a sector-wide approach to growing the sector, contributing to the economy, and protecting the environment.
Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service:
The Ministry for the Environment (MfE) advises the government on policies and issues affecting the environment, as well as environmental laws and standards.
Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service works with MfE to maintain and improve environmental outcomes associated with forestry.
MfE is responsible for measuring the carbon in New Zealand forests to help it track greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forestry.
Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service works closely with MfE on standards and regulations like the Emissions Trading Scheme and the National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry.
The Department of Conservation (DOC) is responsible for conservation efforts across New Zealand. Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service works with DOC to sustainably manage and conserve forests in New Zealand. We ensure:
We also partner with DOC:
LINZ is a New Zealand government department responsible for a number of functions around location information, including geographical information and surveying. They also handle land titles, and manage Crown land and property.
LINZ is the key provider of data for Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service’s geospatial team, including parcel data, land title owner data and aerial imagery. We share our expertise across both agencies.
We deliver workforce strategies and programmes together with MBIE (through Immigration New Zealand), Corrections, and MSD.
Te Puni Kōkiri means ‘a group moving forward together’. They provide guidance to government about policies affecting Māori and advise on Government-Māori relationships, as well as leading public policy for Māori.
We work with TPK to support Māori landowners.
The New Zealand Defence Force works to keep New Zealand safe and secure.
We work with the Defence Force on the Matariki Tu Rākau planting programme. Part of the One Billion Trees Programme, Matariki Tu Rākau provides funding for the planting of living memorials to our service men and women.
Scion is a Crown research institute that specialises in research, science and technology development for the forestry, wood product, wood-derived materials, and other biomaterial sectors.
We’re working with Scion to progress the next generation of forestry technology.
City, district and regional councils have hugely important and multifaceted roles to play in managing forests in their areas. Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service works closely with councils in their forestry work.
Councils:
National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry
Hill Country Erosion Programme
Erosion Control Funding Programme
Funding to help plant one billion trees
We work with a wide range of forestry industry organisations to inform our work towards a common goal of growing the forestry sector. We consult on new policies and regulations, collect data for the sector, and support sector activities.
Organisations we work with include:
Māori have strong cultural and spiritual links to indigenous forests, and Māori involvement in plantation forestry is steadily increasing as Treaty of Waitangi settlements are made. Forestry provides an option for the protection of lands, employment, and economic benefits.
Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service works closely with Māori landowners, Māori forestry organisations, and iwi across all our business areas.
New Zealand is working to achieve a net-zero emissions economy by 2050, and is committed to both domestic and international climate change progress. New Zealand is signatory to several international agreements that shape the decisions we make, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement, and the Kyoto Protocol, and we monitor our progress to sustainable forest management using the Montreal Process.
Climate change is a global problem, affecting every region, population, and economy around the world. To be successful in limiting the most harmful impacts of climate change, all countries need to contribute to reducing emissions.
New Zealand is working to achieve a net-zero emissions economy by 2050, and is committed to both domestic and international climate change progress.
Forests can play a significant role in helping to meet our international climate change targets, and sustainable forestry is important to ensure the long-term future of those forests.
New Zealand monitors the sustainability of our forest management through an international system called the Montréal Process on Criteria and Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests (the Montréal Process).
The Montréal Process provides a common way for member countries to measure their progress towards sustainable management of temperate and boreal forests.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) enables countries to collectively consider how to mitigate climate change and cope with its impacts.
The UNFCCC was adopted by over 185 countries including New Zealand at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and took effect in March 1994.
Its ultimate aim is to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that prevents dangerous human interference with the climate system.
In December 2015, the UNFCCC held their 21st convention on climate change in Paris. It resulted in a worldwide agreement to hold average global temperatures at no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
Over 180 countries signed what has become known as the Paris Agreement – the first of its kind. The Paris Agreement commits New Zealand to an ambitious target – to reduce emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2030. Changes are being made to the ETS to meet our commitments under the agreement.
International response to climate change
The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the UNFCCC, which commits its parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets.
New Zealand ratified the Kyoto Protocol in December 2002. New Zealand’s obligations under the Kyoto Protocol include:
International forestry rules [PDF, 544 KB]
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