From Ministry for the Environment website. 21 November 2024

Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are at the heart of the Paris Agreement.

NDCs are how countries contribute to the global temperature goal of the Paris Agreement, to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C.

For more information on the 1.5 degree goal, see the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on 1.5 degrees.

The Ministry for the Environment is seeking feedback to inform the Government’s decision on its international climate change target for 2031–35.

This emissions reduction target will be set under the Paris Agreement and be New Zealand’s second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC2). The Government will set NDC2 in early 2025.

Our second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC2):

• will cover 2031–35, the same period as our third domestic emissions budget

• must be a progression on our first international climate change target. This is commonly understood as meaning a higher target.

Read the full public feedback document

Read the Commission’s advice on their website

Read the Ministry’s summary of the Commission’s advice

Responses will help to inform the Ministry’s advice to the Government on the NDC2 target.

A summary of feedback will be published on the Ministry’s website.