Climate Action LedgerTracking climate leadership · Aotearoa NZ
LL-021··Labour-led coalition (with NZ First)·programme

Carbon Neutral Government Programme (2019)

Win +1

What happened

Launched Carbon Neutral Government Programme requiring public sector agencies to measure and reduce emissions, with 2025 carbon neutrality target for the programme (later extended by successor govt).

Why it matters

Created accountability framework for public-sector decarbonisation.

Impact assessment

Meaningful public-sector mitigation framework; later deadline weakened (NC-019).

Attribution

shared (high confidence) -Labour, Greens

Climate Minister Shaw; State Sector Decarbonisation Fund alongside CNGP.

Coalition period: Labour-led coalition (with NZ First) (26 October 2017 - 16 October 2020)

Categories

governancemitigation

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