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Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Emissions Trading Scheme

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Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change

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Abstract

Aotearoa/New Zealand’s (A/NZ’s) key piece of mitigation strategy is the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZETS). The scheme was put in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in A/NZ in line with the Kyoto Protocols. This chapter will outline the development, implementation, and subsequent amendments to the NZETS, and the Māori reaction and compliance with it. Discussion will include plans for Māori land reforestation projects and the impact of the scheme from a social, economic, environmental, and cultural perspective. In question too is the tension between complying with an economic-focused mitigation measure, and MM practices, beliefs, and values that the NZETS ignores.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Bullock, 2009, 2.

  2. 2.

    Bullock, 2009, 2.

  3. 3.

    The New Zealand Herald – NZ’s Emissions Impossible, 16 December 2014. Last retrieved accessed 15 January 2015.

  4. 4.

    Tim Grosser in Climate Change: NZ’s Emission Impossible, in The New Zealand Herald, 16 December, 2014. (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/news/print.cfm?pbjectid=11374647]) Last retrieved 15 January 2015.

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    (www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/climate/nz-fifth-national-communication/page2.html) Last accessed 28/8/2014.

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    (www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/climate/nz-fifth-national-communication/page2.html) Last accessed 28/8/2014.

  7. 7.

    MfE report 2005, cited in Bullock, 2009, 6.

  8. 8.

    Bullock, 2009, 6.

  9. 9.

    www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/climate/nz-fifth-national-communication/page2.html Executive Summary p. 6. Last accessed 28/8/2014.

  10. 10.

    Bullock, 2009, 6.

  11. 11.

    Bullock, 2009, 6.

  12. 12.

    www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/climate/nz-fifth-national-communication/page2.html (last accessed 28/8/2014).

  13. 13.

    www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/climate/nz-fifth-national-communication/page2.html Executive Summary, 6 (last accessed 28/8/2014).

  14. 14.

    www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/climate/nz-fifth-national-communication/page2.html Executive Summary, 1.4 Policies and Measures, 6 (last accessed 28/8/2014).

  15. 15.

    Hopkins et al., 2015.

  16. 16.

    Bullock, 2009, 10.

  17. 17.

    Bullock, 2009, 11.

  18. 18.

    Hopkins et al., 2015.

  19. 19.

    Bullock, 2009, 11.

  20. 20.

    Environment Protection Agency, About the ETS. (http://www.epa.govt.nz/e-m-t/Pages/About-ets.aspx). Last accessed 15 January 2015.

  21. 21.

    For more detail on the mechanics of the NZETS refer to Bullock, D. (2009); Environmental Protection Agency, ETS 2013 – Facts and Figures (http://www.epa.govt.nz/e-m-t/pages/about-ets.aspx); New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment, (http://www.mfe.govt.nz).

  22. 22.

    www.epa.govt.nz/publications/EPA_He_Whetu_Marama.PDF.

  23. 23.

    Dr Nick Smith, Minister for Climate Change Issues, 9 October 2009. Amendments for a Moderated NZ ETS and Second Order amendments to the Climate Change Response Act, in Cabinet Paper EGI (09) 13/2. Office of the Minister for Climate Change Issues. http://www.mfe.govt.nz/cabinet-papers/egi-09-132.html.

  24. 24.

    Ministry for the Environment, 2012 Amendments to the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS): Questions and answers. Last accessed 21 January 2015, 2.

  25. 25.

    Ministry for the Environment, Amendments to the New Zealand Emissions Trading Schemes 2012, 5.

  26. 26.

    Orange, 1987.

  27. 27.

    Kawharu, 1989.

  28. 28.

    Carter et al., 2011, 17.

  29. 29.

    Carter et al., 2011, 17.

  30. 30.

    Carter et al., 2011, 27.

  31. 31.

    Carter et al., 2011, 27.

  32. 32.

    Insley and Meade, 2008.

  33. 33.

    Insley and Meade, 2008, 2.

  34. 34.

    Insley and Meade, 2008, 2.

  35. 35.

    Insley and Meade, 2008, 2.

  36. 36.

    Personal statement, Sir Mark Solomon, Kaiwhakahaere of Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu (1997–2017).

  37. 37.

    Insley and Meade, 2008, 3.

  38. 38.

    Insley and Meade, 2008, 3.

  39. 39.

    Insley and Meade, 2008, 49.

  40. 40.

    Insley and Meade, 2008.

  41. 41.

    Insley and Meade, 2008.

  42. 42.

    Harmsworth, 2003.

  43. 43.

    Harmsworth, 2003, 5.1.

  44. 44.

    Personal conversation. Shaun Awatere presented the research and findings at the Pacific Climate Change Conference, Wellington, February 2018, and the information given at the conference is included here with permission.

  45. 45.

    Bullock, 2009, 41.

  46. 46.

    Bullock, 2009, 41.

  47. 47.

    LandCare New Zealand Report, Forests and shrublands as a place to store carbon.

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Carter, L. (2019). Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Emissions Trading Scheme. In: Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change. Palgrave Studies in Disaster Anthropology. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96439-3_5

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