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Advocacy and submissions
Representing more than 700 organisations and companies who believe in a better built Aotearoa, we present submissions on key policy and advocate for regulatory and industry-wide change.
 

2023

Using green hydrogen blended with fossil gas would be monumentally wasteful in terms of energy and wouldn’t provide any unique benefit to household and commercial users. Using electricity directly in homes and businesses is more than 50% more energy efficient than creating green hydrogen (it takes 55kWh of electricity to make 33.3kWh worth of green hydrogen), with additional energy savings from the greater energy efficiency of heat pumps compared to gas heating.  It would be better for New Zealanders and the taxpayer to focus on improving the energy efficiency and electrifying New Zealand buildings and homes.  

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The lack of a focus on energy efficiency is deeply alarming in this paper.  Read our full response to MBIE

November 2023

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Read our submission on MBIE's consultation on key issues and opportunities facing the gas sector

September 2023

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Read our feedback to MBIE on their review of the building consent system.

July 2023.

 

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Read our feedback to the Climate Change Commission on their draft advice to Government. Our feedback covers the buildings chapter, the energy chapter and the emissions pricing chapter.

June 2023

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Read our feedback to MBIE on plans to increase the building levy threshold and change the levy rates.

May 2023

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2022

Read our feedback to Auckland Council on proposed changes to the city's developer contributions policy  

November 2022

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Read our feedback to the Ministry for the Environment on proposed changes to limit and price control settings for units

October 2022

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Read our feedback on the draft report on competition in the residential building supplies market

September 2022

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Read our submission to the Environment Select Committee on the emissions budgets published in 2022 and the first Emissions Reduction Plan

June 2022

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Read our submission on MBIE's proposal to delay the introduction of the important H1 insulation improvements to the Building Code

June 2022

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Read our submission on the Draft National Adaptation Plan to Te Manatū Mō Te Taiao - Ministry for the Environment.

June 2022

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Read our submission to the External Reporting Board (XRB) for stakeholder input on Aotearoa New Zealand Climate Standard 1 (NZ CS 1) - Strategy and Metrics and Targets consultation.

May 2022

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The New Zealand Green Building Council is concerned by MBIE consulting around delaying the implementation of the H1 insulation improvements to the Building Code.

April 2022

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Dozens of leading organisations in Aotearoa have jointly signed a letter calling on Government to adopt the Climate Change Commission’s recommendation “to have, by 31 December 2022, implemented measures to improve the energy performance of existing buildings, such as mandating participation in energy performance programmes.”

February 2022

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2021

Read our submission to the Ministry for the Environment on Te hau mārohi ki anamata | Transitioning to a low-emissions and climate-resilient future

November 2021

 

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Read our submission to the External Reporting Board (XRB) for Stakeholder Input on Aotearoa New Zealand Climate Standard 1 (NZ CS 1) – Climate Related Financial Disclosures for the Governance and Risk Management Consultation Document

November 2021

 

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Read our submission to the Environment Select Committee on proposed changes to the RMA.

November 2021

 

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Read our submission to the Environment Select Committee into its briefing on reducing construction and demolition waste going to landfill

August 2021

 

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Read our submission to the Environment Select Committee into its inquiry into the the proposed Natural and Built Environments Bill.

August 2021

 

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Read our submission on the proposed long-term vision for our housing and urban development system, and the Government's plans to work with others to make it happen.

July 2021

 

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Read our submission to the Aotearoa New Zealand Infrastructure Strategy consultation.

July 2021

 

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Read our response to the Building Code proposals put forward by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. 

June 2021

 

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Read a letter from over 50 organisations urging James Shaw, co-leader of the Greens and Minister for Climate Change, to deliver on a key election promise on green government buildings.

March 2021

 

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The Climate Change Commission has released its first package of advice to government on how to reach net-zero by 2050.

March 2021

 

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2020

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has launched its Building for Climate Change proposals. It's promising once in a generation reform, something we as a sector can help make happen.

October 2020

 

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Kick-starting a just transition with healthy homes, providing a multibillion-dollar economic boost.

May 2020

 

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New Zealand’s Building Code is forever being criticised and complained about, so much so you wonder why nothing has changed. It has not evolved fast enough, and fails to provide New Zealanders with warm, dry, and sustainable places to live and work. Here we lay out the main areas that need to be changed.

April 2020

 

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NZGBC submission on the Ministry for Environment's proposal to increase the landfill levy and apply it to more landfill types.

February 2020

 

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