Monitoring report: Emissions reduction (2025)
Assessing progress towards meeting Aotearoa New Zealand’s emissions budgets and the 2050 target
About this report
This is the Commission's second monitoring report on emissions reductions. This report looks at how well current emissions reductions policies and plans set the country up to meet its climate goals.
This advice is required under sections 5J, 5ZJ and 5ZK of the Climate Change Response Act 2002.
This 2025 emissions reduction monitoring report tracks progress towards achievement of:
- the first emissions budget (2022–2025)
- the second budget (2026–2030)
- the third budget (2031–2035) and
- the 2050 target.
This report will be released in July 2025. Once it has been tabled in Parliament, it will be published on this page.