Election 2023 - Emissions Policy

Act
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.

Green Party
Spokesperson:
Julie Anne Genter
Link to
policy here
.

- Ensure that necessary zero-emission heavy vehicles are affordable, through tax incentives and funding.
- Enable local authorities to implement low-emissions zones and low-traffic neighbourhoods.
- Expand the subsidies for low emission cars to bikes, electric bikes, cargo bikes and scooters, and other incentives for people to forgo car ownership.
- When evaluating a new infrastructure project, the embodied carbon should be considered, aiming to prioritise the most mobility with the least carbon.
- Ensure the emissions from international aviation are included in carbon pricing schemes.
- Read more here

Labour
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.

National
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.

New Zealand First
Spokesperson:
Winston Peters
Link to
policy here
.

- New Zealand First will not support emissions pricing in any form unless adopted by trading partners, especially the European Union.
- New Zealand First supports the adoption of standardised farm level reporting.
- New Zealand First will incentivise the uptake of the emissions reduction mitigations.
- Read more here

TOP
Spokesperson:
Ben Peters
Link to
policy here
.

- We will strengthen the ETS by excluding new forestry, instituting a hard cap on units, empowering the Climate Change Commission to set the carbon price through a new Official Carbon Rate (OCAR) and re-investing more of the scheme’s revenues into renewable energy development, emissions free transport and a carbon dividend.
- See more here

Te Pāti Māori
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.