Vote Climate Change
MINISTER(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR APPROPRIATIONS: Minister for Climate Change Issues (M12)
ADMINISTERING DEPARTMENT: Ministry for the Environment
MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR MINISTRY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: Minister for the Environment
Overview of the Vote
The Minister for Climate Change Issues is responsible for appropriations in Vote Climate Change for the 2010/11 financial year covering the following:
- a total of nearly $29 million over the period of four years for the development of a national carbon accounting system
- a total of nearly $12 million for policy advice in relation to international negotiations under the Kyoto Protocol, development and implementation of the Emissions Trading Scheme and other climate change policy measures
- a total of nearly $1,034 million for the allocation of New Zealand emission units to the NZ economy
- a total of $300,000 for New Zealand's contribution to the Climate Change Development Fund to support international projects addressing climate change impacts
- a total of $127,000 for New Zealand's contribution to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- a total of nearly $8 million for the issue of New Zealand Assigned Amount Units to Permanent Forest Sink Initiative participants, and
- a total of over $2 million for the purchase of Projects to Reduce Emissions (PRE) emission units by the Crown from the PRE portfolio.
Details of these appropriations are set out in Parts 2-6 for Vote Climate Change in the Information Supporting the Estimates of Appropriations.
