Assessing New Zealand’s climate change response with ClimateScanner
Summary of our report
The International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions’ ClimateScanner initiative requires supreme audit institutions to assess how governments are responding to climate change. The assessment identifies the strengths of that response and the challenges that each country faces.
This report summarises the results of our rapid assessment. It provides a broad overview of government actions to respond to climate change and highlights areas for improvement.
The results of our assessment will be consolidated with the results of the assessments of audit institutions in other participating countries. This will create a display of global data that will summarise the strengths of, and challenges in, government eff orts to take action on climate change around the world.
What's in this report
What we looked at to make our assessment
ClimateScanner mainly focuses on the actions of central government. Therefore, to make our assessment, we collected and reviewed publicly available documents and documents that central government organisations provided. We also looked at information from the Climate Change Commission and the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.
Climate change arrangements in New Zealand
New Zealand signed the Paris Agreement in 2016. The agreement, which took effect in 2020, commits New Zealand to meeting the emissions targets of the Paris Agreement and regularly updating the United Nations on its progress towards these targets. As part of New Zealand's commitment, it must submit a Nationally Determined Contribution that outlines the contributions a country will make to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Overview of results
We provide an overview of the results of our ClimateScanner assessment of New Zealand's response to climate change. We set out the results under ClimateScanner's three main axes, which are: governance; public policies; and finance.