NEW ZEALAND: Climate Change Response Act 2002 (2021 Ed.)

Meta Data
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Draft Year: 
2002
Effective Start Year: 
2021
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Act
Economic Sector: 
Energy, Power, Industry, Transport, Multi-Sector, Other
Energy Types: 
All, Power, Other
Issued by: 
Ministry for the Environment
Source: 
Government of New Zealand Legislation
File: 
Climate Change Response Act 2002 (2021 Ed.)
Overall Summary: 
The purpose of this Act is to enable New Zealand to meet its international obligations under the Convention and the Protocol, to provide for the implementation, operation, and administration of a greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme in New Zealand that supports and encourages global efforts to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and to provide for the imposition, operation, and administration of a levy on specified synthetic greenhouse gases contained in motor vehicles and also another levy on other goods to support and encourage global efforts to reduce the emission of those gases.
Environment
Pollution control action plans: 
The purpose of this Act is to enable New Zealand to meet its international obligations under the Convention and the Protocol,[...] provide for the implementation, operation, and administration of a greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme in New Zealand that supports and encourages global efforts to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and [...] to provide for the imposition, operation, and administration of a levy on specified synthetic greenhouse gases contained in motor vehicles and also another levy on other goods to support and encourage global efforts to reduce the emission of those gases.