Climate Change Emissions Trading

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Climate Change (Emissions Trading Renewable
Preferences) Bill 2007

• Willie Te Aho
• Secretariat
• Climate Change Iwi Leaders Group
• Maori Reference Group Executive

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Simple Crown Proposition Reduce Green House Gas
Emissions to 1990 levels (Kyoto Protocol)

• Emissions
• Cows burping
• Motor vehicles
• Consuming Energy
• First step Reduction
• Agricultural solutions
• Reduce private vehicle use increase biofuels
  move to hybrids
• Reduce energy usage

• Offsets (after reductions)
• Carbon sequestration (soak in carbon)
• Most commonly recognised method is continuance
  and establishment of forests.
• After 10 years a regenerating forest will
  sequester 10 tonnes of carbon per year per
  hectare.
• Each tonne is a carbon credit (for post 1989
  forests only)

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Waitangi 4 February 2008

• Strongly oppose the current Bill
• Support the work of the Climate Change Iwi
  Leadership Group
• Moved Waikato Tainui
• Seconded Te Runanga o Ngati Whatua
• CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY

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General Overview

• The Bill sets the framework Cabinet will set
  the design.
• Under the framework, forestry is brought into the
  ETS from 1 January 2008
• In short, penalties on pre 1990 forests and
  opportunities for new post 1989 forests
• Submissions to the Finance Expenditure Select
  Committee close on 29 February 2008.
• This will become law by July 2008 at the latest.
• Our window of opportunity is now.
• Next Iwi Hui tomorrow (1pm, 21/2/08 Copthorne
  Plimmer Towers)
• Next Hui with Ministers (8.30am, 26/02/08
  Executive Wing)
• OUTCOME SOUGHT FROM PUKAWA HUI
• Support from other Iwi who were not at Waitangi

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What is opposed?

• Most Maori forestry is pre 1990 (including CFLs
  300,000 hectares) with most leased/licensed.
• No allocation of NZUs to CFLs claimed by Maori
  (400,000 hectares) to be held on trust for
  claimants.
• Non inclusion of pre 1990 indigenous forests
  despite contribution of indigenous forests to
  reducing NZ emission liabilities.
• Major forestry impacts
• Capping of the Maori economy in forestry (at
  least 200,000 hectares could be used for a better
  higher value use)
• Deforestration penalty of 13,000 per hectare
• No recognition of pre 1990 indigenous forests
  despite the economic recognition being given to
  Amazon, Indigenous and other

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Economic Impacts Pre 1990 Exotic Forests

• 55m NZ Units is proposed to be allocated across
  1.2m hectares of pre 1990 exotic forests.
• After exemptions there should be 45m NZ Units
  allocated.
• Unallocated CFLs make up 33 of the 1.2m
• Estimated price of NZUs is 45 (Westpac Trust
  Bank Economist 9/11/08)
• Total loss to CFL claimants 730m (approx)

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Climate Change Iwi Leadership Group Maori
Reference Group Executive
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