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Webinar: Monitoring report: Emissions reduction (2026)
27 July 2026
Is Aotearoa New Zealand on track to meet its emissions reductions goals? In this webinar, we explore the Climate Change Commission's 2026 emissions reduction monitoring report. This yearly report tracks the progress the country is making towards meeting its emissions budgets and the 2050 emissions reduction target.
Speakers:
- Robin Campbell, General Manager - Delivery
- Rob Carr, Project Director
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Robin Campbell, General Manager - Delivery
00:33 The Commission's role
01:43 Our work programme
03:50 What we monitor and why
05:14 Broader context for this year's report
07:27 Key findings
Rob Carr, Project Director
08:37 Progress – the emissions
10:19 Progress – the policy
11:17 Risk has risen in the last year
12:13 Opportunities
13:13 It's now cheaper to run a heat pump than a fossil boiler
14:14 Transport opportunities
15:05 Recommendation 1: Take action to address market barriers and failures within the next year
16:40 Recommendation 2: Update approach to emissions projections
17:16 What's next?
Q&A
18:38 Time frame for EV costs and heat pumps vs boilers
19:00 Emissions impact if the Conservation Amendment Bill allows economic activity on all conservation land
20:10 Why has electricity generation risk increased?
21:41 How long will it take to commercially distribute methane inhibiting technologies?
24:13 Implications of the election timing for the government's response to this work
26:42 Health sector savings and co-benefits from decarbonisation
28:00 Major government-supported opportunities to address up-front cost barriers for businesses
29:22 Future of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS)
31:38 What constitutes a response from Government?
33:14 What reforms might enable the NZ ETS to deliver the reductions we need?
35:49 Trade-offs between different methods of transport carbonisation
37:50 Nature of the Commission's concerns about the NZ ETS
39:15 Methane bolus and timeline for commercial use
40:30 Economic ramifications in trade agreements from missing climate targets
41:30 Health co-benefits for homes switching away from gas cooking and heating
43:18 Role of nature based solutions beyond forestry
45:15 Landfill gas
47:15 Inclusion of non-methane gases like nitrous dioxide (N2O) in the NZ ETS
49:27 Risk to trade due to climate provisions in free trade agreements
51:05 Which opportunity are you most excited about as a climate solution?
52:53 Which solutions are most likely to succeed on the basis of market forces?