Opportunity to provide feedback to help shape Aotearoa New Zealand’s 2035 international climate change target

Overview

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 global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C.

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

The Ministry for the Environment sought feedback to inform the Government’s decision on its international climate change target (second Nationally Determined Contribution, or NDC2) for 2031–35. The Government announced NDC2 in January 2025.

New Zealand's NDC2:

• aims to reduce emissions by 51 to 55 per cent compared to 2005 levels by 2035
• covers 2031 to 2035,  the same period as our third domestic emissions budget
• is a progression on NDC1.

Read the full public feedback document

Read the Commission’s advice on their website

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

Read New Zealand’s second Nationally Determined Contribution: Submission under the Paris Agreement 

What happens next

This consultation closed on 8 December 2024.

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