# New Zealand enacts the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act 2019

Date: 2019

## The fact

On 13 November 2019 the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act received royal assent, writing 2050 targets and creating the Climate Change Commission.

## Context

James Shaw as climate minister and National’s cross-party vote are on the file. Biogenic methane has a separate target. Implementation still needs later carbon-price and farm instruments. A Commission is not a coal-plant closure by itself.

Wellbeing Budget is 30 May. COP appearances are other dates. Do not convert 2019 into 2023 cyclone attribution.

A New Zealand prime minister chairs Cabinet and can recommend orders and bills. The House enacts. Police, DHBs, MIQ contractors, and platform companies implement. That office is not authorship of WHO guidance, Australian law, or a later successor’s repeal.

## Evidence and sources

New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

Decarbonisation-policy path from a completed target-and-commission statute.

## What is established and what is not

Established: The Zero Carbon Amendment Act 2019 was enacted.

Not established: A unique 2019 gigatonne coefficient from assent.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The House enacted. The Commission still writes advice. Farmers still emit.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies New Zealand enacts the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act 2019, not a later speech about New Zealand enacts the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act 2019.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. New Zealand enacts the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act 2019 on 2019-11-13 is not a licence to treat every later New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average New Zealand enacts the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act 2019 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She sponsored a cross-party climate statute. The House enacted. The Commission still writes advice. Farmers still emit. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Jacinda Ardern: https://factrail.ai/people/jacinda-ardern

## Drivers

- Decarbonization and climate-mitigation policy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/env-decarbonization-policy

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-climate-idUSKBN1XN0Y20191113
- https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2019/0061/latest/LMS183736.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nz-zero-carbon-act-2019