Section 1: What is a biodiversity credit system?
1. Do you support the need for a biodiversity credit system (BCS) for New Zealand?
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No
Please explain your answer here.
I do, but I also think individual volunteers working on conservation should be able to recieve them too.
2. Below are two options for using biodiversity credits. Which do you agree with?
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Credits should only be used to recognise positive actions to support biodiversity
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Credits should be used to recognise positive action to support biodiversity, and actions that avoid future decreases in biodiversity
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The second criteria should be the threshold for companies/enterprise, the first category for individual volunteers/small scale organizations
3. Which scope do you prefer for a biodiversity credit system?
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Focus on terrestrial (land) environments
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Extend from land to freshwater and estuaries (eg, wetland, estuarine restoration)
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Extend from land and freshwater to coastal marine environments (eg, seagrass restoration)
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The sea needs a lot more help
4. Which scope do you prefer for land-based biodiversity credits?
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Cover all land types, including both public and private land including whenua Māori
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Be limited to certain categories of land, for example, private land (including whenua Māori)
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This means public spaces can be enjoyed by all and contributed to by the ones that enjoy it, e.g. people that walk through a reserve everyday tidy it up etc.
5. Which approach do you prefer for a biodiversity credit system?
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Based primarily on outcome
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Based primarily on activities
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Based primarily on projects
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Projects will have a combination of both activies and outcome, and will mean that industries need to work harder to earn the credits, which will provide better results in the longterm.
6. Should there also be a requirement for the project or activity to apply for a specified period to generate credits?
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Yes
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No
Please explain your answer here.
If it is related to planting/restoration, this is dependent on season and extremely important for results.
7. Should biodiversity credits be awarded for increasing legal protection of areas of indigenous biodiversity?
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Yes
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No
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More incentive to protect.
8. Should biodiversity credits be able to be used to offset development impacts as part of resource management processes, provided they meet the requirements of both the BCS system and regulatory requirements?
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Yes
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No
Section 2: Why do we need a biodiversity credit system?
9. Do you think a biodiversity credit system will attract investment to support indigenous biodiversity in New Zealand?
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Yes
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No
10. What do you consider the most important outcomes a New Zealand biodiversity credit system should aim for?
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More reserves and sanctuaries such as predator free fences and native virgin forests
11. What are the main activities or outcomes that a biodiversity credit system for New Zealand should support?
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Incentives for for-profit companies to contribute, helps keep smaller organisation's to continue running
Section 3: How should we design and implement a biodiversity credit system?
12. Of the following principles, which do you consider should be the top four to underpin a New Zealand biodiversity credit system?
| Principle 1 – Permanent or long-term (eg, 25-year) impact 1 Radio button: Not checked 1 | Principle 1 – Permanent or long-term (eg, 25-year) impact 2 Radio button: Not checked 2 | Principle 1 – Permanent or long-term (eg, 25-year) impact 3 Radio button: Checked 3 | Principle 1 – Permanent or long-term (eg, 25-year) impact 4 Radio button: Not checked 4 |
| Principle 2 – Transparent and verifiable claims 1 Radio button: Not checked 1 | Principle 2 – Transparent and verifiable claims 2 Radio button: Not checked 2 | Principle 2 – Transparent and verifiable claims 3 Radio button: Not checked 3 | Principle 2 – Transparent and verifiable claims 4 Radio button: Not checked 4 |
| Principle 3 – Robust, with measures to prevent abuse of the system 1 Radio button: Not checked 1 | Principle 3 – Robust, with measures to prevent abuse of the system 2 Radio button: Checked 2 | Principle 3 – Robust, with measures to prevent abuse of the system 3 Radio button: Not checked 3 | Principle 3 – Robust, with measures to prevent abuse of the system 4 Radio button: Not checked 4 |
| Principle 4 – Reward nature-positive additional activities 1 Radio button: Not checked 1 | Principle 4 – Reward nature-positive additional activities 2 Radio button: Not checked 2 | Principle 4 – Reward nature-positive additional activities 3 Radio button: Not checked 3 | Principle 4 – Reward nature-positive additional activities 4 Radio button: Checked 4 |
| Principle 5 – Complement domestic and international action 1 Radio button: Not checked 1 | Principle 5 – Complement domestic and international action 2 Radio button: Not checked 2 | Principle 5 – Complement domestic and international action 3 Radio button: Not checked 3 | Principle 5 – Complement domestic and international action 4 Radio button: Not checked 4 |
| Principle 6 – No double-counting, and clear rules about the claims that investors can make 1 Radio button: Not checked 1 | Principle 6 – No double-counting, and clear rules about the claims that investors can make 2 Radio button: Not checked 2 | Principle 6 – No double-counting, and clear rules about the claims that investors can make 3 Radio button: Not checked 3 | Principle 6 – No double-counting, and clear rules about the claims that investors can make 4 Radio button: Not checked 4 |
| Principle 7 – Maximise positive impact on biodiversity 1 Radio button: Checked 1 | Principle 7 – Maximise positive impact on biodiversity 2 Radio button: Not checked 2 | Principle 7 – Maximise positive impact on biodiversity 3 Radio button: Not checked 3 | Principle 7 – Maximise positive impact on biodiversity 4 Radio button: Not checked 4 |
13. Have we missed any other important principles?
Please explain your answer here.
Supporting small organisation's and individual volunteers.
14. What assurance would you need to participate in a market, either as a landholder looking after biodiversity or as a potential purchaser of a biodiversity credit?
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Government policy and intervention
15. What do you see as the benefits and risks for a biodiversity credit market not being regulated at all?
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Companies will always prefer profit, and they will find ways to abuse the system one way or another.
16. To have the most impact in attracting people to the market, which component(s) should the Government be involved in?
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Project provision
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Quantification of activities or outcomes
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Monitoring measurement and reporting
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Verification of claims
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Operation of the market and registry
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Investing in credits.
18. Should the Government play a role in focusing market investment towards particular activities and outcomes?
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Yes
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No
If yes, why? Please explain your answer here.
To make sure everyone isn't doing the easiest jobs
19. On a scale of 1, not relevant, to 5, being critical, should a New Zealand biodiversity credit system seek to align with international systems and frameworks?
| Should a New Zealand biodiversity credit system seek to align with international systems and frameworks? 1 - not relevant Radio button: Checked 1 - not relevant | Should a New Zealand biodiversity credit system seek to align with international systems and frameworks? 2 Radio button: Not checked 2 | Should a New Zealand biodiversity credit system seek to align with international systems and frameworks? 3 Radio button: Not checked 3 | Should a New Zealand biodiversity credit system seek to align with international systems and frameworks? 4 Radio button: Not checked 4 | Should a New Zealand biodiversity credit system seek to align with international systems and frameworks? 5 - is critical Radio button: Not checked 5 - is critical |
Please explain your answer here.
They may interfere and we won't be able to regulate them as well as we can our own.
20. Should the Government work with private sector providers to pilot biodiversity credit system(s) in different regions, to test the concept?
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Yes
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No
If you support this work, which regions and providers do you suggest? Please explain your answer here.
Predator Free Wellington
Section 4: How a biodiversity credit system could complement the wider system
21. What is your preference for how a biodiversity credit system should work alongside the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme or voluntary carbon markets?
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Little/no interaction: biodiversity credit system focuses purely on biodiversity, and carbon storage benefits are a bonus
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Some interaction: biodiversity credits should be recognised alongside carbon benefits on the same land, via both systems, where appropriate
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High interaction: rigid biodiversity ‘standards’ are set for nature-generated carbon credits and built into carbon markets, so that investors can have confidence in ‘biodiversity positive’ carbon credits
22. Should a biodiversity credit system complement the resource management system?
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Yes
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No
23. Should a biodiversity credit system support land-use reform?
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Yes
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No
Provide general feedback
Any general feedback on the consultation
Add your comments, ideas, and feedback here
If we could have strict regulations on companies, and looser regulations on individual/smaller organisations, this would mean that the small organization would still have room to do the work they love to do, and not get overshadowed. Or they could find a way to work together for a mutually beneficial agreement in which the ones doing the restoration work get the same credit amount as the land holders.