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When it signed onto the Paris Climate Agreement, New Zealand pledged to increase its net greenhouse gas emissions by 10% by 2030, compared to 2005. The latest NZ Government report shows with current policy settings, it is on track to increase them by over 20%.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Most people imagine that, when countries signed up to the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, they were signing up to cut their greenhouse emissions. And New Zealand\u2019s commitment looked like that too – the John Key led Government of the day said it committed to cutting its emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2030. <\/p>\n\n

But there was a catch. The 2005 base year figure was referring to gross emissions, while the 2030 target was net emissions. Gross emissions means just emissions, while net emissions means gross emissions minus the carbon sequestered by forests. And New Zealand has a lot of forestry. <\/p>\n\n

This made the New Zealand Paris commitment look better than it really was. In fact, if you compare like-with-like – that is if you compare the 2030 net emissions target with net emissions in the base year of 2005 – then a claimed 30% cut is shown in reality to be a 10% increase. Ouch.<\/p>\n\n

And here\u2019s why: In 2005 New Zealand\u2019s net greenhouse gas emissions were 54.5 million tonnes, measured in \u2018CO2 equivalent\u2019 which converts all greenhouse gases to CO2 warming equivalent (1)<\/sup>. The 2030 net emissions target agreed to in Paris was 60 million tonnes CO2 equivalent per year on average, for the decade 2021-30 (2)<\/sup>. When you compare like-with-like, New Zealand committed to increase its net greenhouse gas emissions from 54.5 to 60 million tonnes from 2005 to 2030 – or about 10%.<\/p>\n\n

This is plainly not a good thing, and the way it was presented as a cut – when it was the opposite – was deliberately misleading. New Zealand went to the big Paris Climate Conference, said we cared about climate change, told everyone we would cut our pollution by 30%, but actually committed to increasing our net emissions by 10%.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Now you might say that was John Key, for whom climate change was no \u2018nuclear free moment\u2019, so what else would you expect?<\/p>\n\n

But it gets worse.<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n

On the last sitting day of Parliament in 2019, in the middle of the silly season, James Shaw, the Climate Change Minister of the new \u2018climate is our nuclear free moment\u2019 Government, tabled a rather boringly titled official report,  \u201cNZ\u2019s Fourth Biennial Report Under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change<\/a><\/em>\u201d. This is the report the New Zealand Government is required to make to the UN about our emissions. <\/p>\n\n

\"Huntly
Four members of the Greenpeace climate rescue team scale the 150-metre high smoke stack at the Huntly coal-fired power station and start unfurling a banner that reads: “Climate killer”. Due to safety concerns they remove the banner before it is fully deployed. However, another group of activists successfully lay a 45-metre banner on the coal conveyor, which reads “Climate change starts here” with an arrow pointing to the coal station.
\u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Dean Treml<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The Report <\/em>recorded New Zealand\u2019s actual emissions up to 2017, and then provided a series of projections of emissions out to 2035. It showed that under the current Government\u2019s policies, New Zealand\u2019s 2030 net emissions wouldn\u2019t just increase 10% over 2005 figures, they would actually increase more than 20%.<\/p>\n\n

Taking into account every policy that the officials could think of, they found that New Zealand\u2019s net emissions in 2030 would be around 66 million tonnes, and that the average net emissions for the decade 2021-30 would be well above that, with a peak of 72 million tonnes in 2025 (3)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n

But why is New Zealand doing so badly?<\/em><\/h2>\n\n

The primary reason is that the Government is not using the tools available to it to drive down emissions from our two biggest polluting sectors – agriculture<\/a> and land transport<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

Regarding agriculture, last year the Government decided that agribusiness would face zero cost for their emissions under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)<\/a>, and instead the Government would maintain the billion dollar a year subsidy to agribusiness under the ETS. Rather than use price signals to drive emission reduction, they opted for yet another round of voluntary measures, with the threat that the sector might face a small price in 2025. As we found with the Clean Streams Accord, voluntary measures don\u2019t work. This means that agriculture doesn\u2019t pay for its pollution and doesn\u2019t have a financial incentive to cut its emissions. It also means the price of carbon is lower than it would otherwise be across the economy, and the Government has a billion dollars less for other things. <\/p>\n\n

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Billboards placed in a polluted river depicting a promise made by Prime Minister Ardern to clean up our rivers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Regarding transport, the Government has a patchy record. The investment in the rail network is significant and will help move freight off the roads, but the billions for new motorways will increase road traffic and emissions<\/a>. The move to electrify transport has so far received almost no government support,and is moving achingly slowly. The total absence of fuel efficiency standards for imported cars, and lack of incentives to adopt low emissions vehicles, means things are not improving. Have you noticed all those new gas guzzling 4WDs and double cab utes everywhere\u2026 well there are no government policies to stop that madness.<\/p>\n\n

But isn\u2019t it all about forestry? Not really.<\/em><\/h2>\n\n

There is another reason which is often cited for the increase in net emissions in the decade to 2030, and that is the harvesting of plantation forests. It’s true that a \u2018wall of wood\u2019 is due to be harvested in this period, but this begs the question of why it won\u2019t be replaced by sufficient plantation forests, and even better, by permanent native forests. This is driven by the low price of carbon in the ETS, which isn\u2019t providing enough of an incentive to drive large scale reforestation. <\/p>\n\n

And what is driving the low price of carbon? You guessed it, the fact that the industry that would be the biggest buyer of carbon units, agriculture, is excluded from the ETS. Once you remove about half the national demand for carbon units by excluding agriculture, then the price will inevitably be much lower. Markets are like that – cut out half the demand for any product and the price will drop. <\/p>\n\n

Land coming out of plantation forestry, which absorbs carbon, has been converted into dairy, which is a big climate polluter, purely because of the economics driven by the exclusion of agriculture from the ETS. Effectively the Government has decided to spend a billion dollars a year to subsidise dairy emissions, with the effect that it is penalising forestry by artificially keeping carbon prices low. They are trying to counter this by the use of direct subsidies like the Billion Trees boondoggle, but with low carbon prices they are walking against a market headwind – a headwind entirely of their own making. And this is why net emissions are soaring.<\/p>\n\n

This Government has one last chance to cut emissions – cut nitrogen fertiliser<\/em><\/h2>\n\n

The Labour-led Coalition Government started with a hiss and a roar on climate when it banned new oil and gas exploration permits back in April 2018<\/a>, with the exception of onshore Taranaki. It was a bold and necessary move, which rightly received global accolades. But since then it has done very little to cut New Zealand\u2019s very high per capita emissions, and this is starkly exposed in the Fourth Biennial Report<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n

\"Jacinda
The Prime Minister of New Zealand speaks at Greenpeace event presenting a petition signed by more than 45,000 people calling for an end to oil exploration.
\u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Marty Melville<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

It takes courage to tackle emissions from agribusiness and road transport, given the  powerful lobby groups protecting their patch. And so far the Government simply hasn\u2019t had the courage needed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

But, the Government has one last chance to curtail agricultural emissions with the freshwater regulations<\/a> being considered this year. If the freshwater regulations are effective in cleaning up rivers, especially by including direct measures such as a cap on synthetic nitrogen fertiliser<\/a>, they will have a secondary effect of cutting agricultural emissions.<\/p>\n\n

If they matched this with the huge expansion in solar, wind and batteries needed to provide the energy for the electrification of transport and industrial processes, and a big investment in sustainable transport, then they could also start to turn around the increase in transport emissions.<\/p>\n\n

The policy solutions to cut New Zealand\u2019s climate pollution are well understood and are just sitting there waiting to be used by a Government willing to confront powerful vested interests opposed to climate action. But after three terms of National-UF-Act-M\u0101ori Party Governments, and a term of Labour-NZ First-Greens, we are still waiting for a Government that has the courage to pick up those policy tools.<\/p>\n\n

Originally published on The Spinoff<\/a><\/p>\n\n

References:<\/em><\/h2>\n\n
  1. New Zealand Government (2019) New Zealand\u2019s Fourth Biennial Report Under the Framework Convention on Climate Change<\/em>, Appendix A: CTF Table 1: Emissions trends summary pp.200-3.<\/li>
  2. New Zealand Government (2019), New Zealand\u2019s Fourth Biennial Report Under the Framework Convention on Climate Change<\/em>, p.29.<\/li>
  3. New Zealand Government (2019), New Zealand\u2019s Fourth Biennial Report Under the Framework Convention on Climate Change<\/em>, Appendix C: CTF Table 6a Information on updated emissions projections (with measures), pp. 215-6.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n

    In these tables Gross Emissions are referred to as \u2018Total without LULUCF\u2019; Net Emissions are referred to as \u2018Total with LULUCF\u2019. LULUCF stands for \u201cland use, land use change, and forestry\u201d and for New Zealand this largely refers to carbon sequestered and lost from forests.<\/p>\n\n

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