New Zealand’s Seventh National Communication updates New Zealand’s progress towards its commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and towards implementing the Kyoto Protocol.
New Zealand’s Seventh National Communication updates New Zealand’s progress towards its commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and towards implementing the Kyoto Protocol.
New Zealand’s Seventh National Communication provides information on:
- national circumstances to provide context for New Zealand’s emissions (Chapter 2)
- New Zealand’s latest greenhouse gas emissions and trends (Chapter 3)
- policies and measures in place to address climate change (Chapter 4)
- projections for New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions (Chapter 5)
- climate change impacts on New Zealand and vulnerability and adaptation work (Chapter 6)
- the financial assistance and technology transfer New Zealand gives to other countries (Chapter 7)
- research and systematic observation (Chapter 8)
- education, training and public awareness campaigns (Chapter 9).
The publication also includes New Zealand's report on the Global Climate Observing System and Tokelau’s Living with Change: An Integrated National Strategy for Enhancing the Resilience of Tokelau to Climate Change and Related Hazards, 2017–2030.
Date of next submission
New Zealand will submit its 5th Biennial Report and 8th National Communication no later than 31 December 2022, in line with decisions 1/CP.24 and 6/CP.25 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
This timeframe (moved from the original due date of 1 January 2022) will enable Parties to include in these two reports the same inventory data as that submitted in April 2022 (containing data for the years 1990–2020), which will be a critical component of the information on the achievement of 2020 targets to be provided in the 5th Biennial Report.