Carbon Neutral Government Programme
The commission is committed to meeting the requirements of the Carbon Neutral Government Programme (CNGP). The current reporting year is the 2024-2025 financial year, 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025. The base year for carbon emissions reporting was the 2022-2023 financial year, 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023.
Carbon Neutral Government Programme (Ministry for Cities, Environment, Regions & Transport website).
Our emissions
Our gross emissions for 2024–2025 were 48.27 tCO2e (tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent). Most of our emissions come from business travel, especially air travel.
Our emissions inventory has been prepared in accordance with ISO 14064-1:2018 standards and independently verified by Toitū Envirocare.
The following emissions sources are not included:
- Freight. The emissions for this are insignificant and collecting such data is impractical.
Total emissions by scope
Emissions intensity
Emissions intensity
Our reduction targets
The commission has set gross emission reduction targets in line with less than 1.5 C of warming as required under the CNGP.
2025 target: Gross emissions (all categories) to be no more than 56.5 tCO2e, or a 21% reduction in total gross emissions compared to base year FY 2022–23. We have met this target.
2030 target: Gross emissions (all categories) to be no more than 41.5 tCO2e, or a 42% reduction in total gross emissions compared to base year FY 2022–23.
Annual emissions against reduction targets
Annual emissions against reduction targets
Our reduction plan
We have identified specific projects to decarbonise our emissions-generating activity.
Travel policy: This has been approved by the Board and sets guidelines and limits on when and how business travel can be approved. We met our 2025 target of 38% reduction in emissions from business travel compared to base year. We have also set a 2030 target of 50% reduction in emissions from business travel compared to base year.
Commuting: We continue to support staff to choose public and active transport options for travelling to and from the office.