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🎅Merry Christmas from WasteMINZ 🎅 Today is our last day in the office, and we reopen on Monday, 13 January. The WasteMINZ team wishes you a restful, relaxing holiday and we'll see you again in the new year!

New Zealand’s second emissions reduction plan sets out how the Government will meet our climate change target for the second half of this decade. The Government’s plan focuses on actions that will drive significant emissions reduction. The plan helps keep New Zealand’s emissions to no more than 305 megatonnes between 2026 and 2030, allowing New Zealand to meet our second emission budget and setting the foundation to meet our 2050 net zero target. Read the summary and learn more about the plan at https://bit.ly/4imMDX0

Our new website is now live - thanks to the team at Concentrate - HubSpot Solutions Partner! Check it out here: www.wasteminz.org.nz

#NEW: Our final reports for 2024 have been released: our advice on on NZ's fourth emissions budget, and our review of the 2050 emissions target (including our advice on whether emissions from international shipping and aviation should be included). These two reports are separate, but closely related: 🎯 The 2050 target represents the country's long-term commitment to reducing its emissions, to contribute to global efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels – which evidence shows will help avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Our review of the target found significant changes since 2019: Evidence shows that the world is not on track to limit warming to 1.5°C, climate impacts are more severe and happening sooner than expected, and other countries are already doing and expecting more. We're recommending an update to a more ambitious 2050 target that's also affordable and achievable. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gzkypCix 📉 Emissions budgets help turn this long-term commitment into tangible, measurable and achievable steps. Our advice shows that Aotearoa New Zealand has options to get on track to the current 2050 emissions reduction target. We've recommended that the fourth emissions budget be set at 160 MtCO2e – and we've also recommended that emissions budgets one, two and three be updated. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gr5dKDt9 More info about both reports, how they fit together, and what we've recommended, is available on our website: https://lnkd.in/gBh7DyZc #ClimateChange | #ClimateAction | #EmissionsReduction | #EmissionsBudgets

Rod Lidgard - CEnvP (SC), lead author of the Reclaiming Resources: Optimising Soil Reuse in Infrastructure and Development white paper, spoke to Jesse Mulligan about why we should make it easier to keep soil out of landfills on World Soil Day yesterday. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/g6ksZH2k

Healthy soil nurtures life, preserves ecosystems, and helps our natural world flourish – but in Aotearoa New Zealand, we continue to treat it like waste. Soil from construction, developments, and earthworks is often sent to landfill, with more than 4.5 million tonnes of soil estimated to end up in landfills and cleanfills every year. Ahead of World Soil Day (Thursday, 5 December) WasteMINZ has published a media release about the Reclaiming Resources: Optimising Soil Reuse in Infrastructure and Development white paper, which you can read here: https://lnkd.in/gPPvPEKM It's not too late to register for our World Soil Day webinar, where Rod Lidgard - CEnvP (SC), James Corbett and Timothy Dee will explain the key messages from the paper and share next steps. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gT5xEZ6m

What have WasteMINZ's steering committees been up to over the past three months? A lot!    On top of a comprehensive schedule of webinars, the committees have sent multiple letters to Ministers, had three elections, and are working on a number of advocacy pieces, including CRS, feedback on the waste disposal levy, and urging the government to continue prioritising behaviour change campaigns and product stewardship schemes. Read more about what we're doing here: https://lnkd.in/gCu-8gkQ

Aotearoa New Zealand must set its second international climate change target for 2031–35, known as a Nationally Determined Contribution, by February 2025. Climate change impacts all New Zealanders, and the Government wants to understand what’s most important to New Zealanders before setting our next international climate change target. We also want feedback on how the Government could weight the different factors it must consider when settings its second Nationally Determined Contribution. Your feedback will help to inform final decisions by the Government. Learn more about the opportunity for feedback and share your views 🔗: https://lnkd.in/gZTiyQ7d

Round out a fantastic 2024 by joining us at at our December networking event, hosted by Foodstuffs New Zealand. We'll have informative presentations from Debra Goulding, Foodstuffs New Zealand, and Mat Coleman, Interwaste (NZ). We'd love to see you there! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gwGqKZfX

ICYMI: Nic Quilty spoke to Heather Du Plessis-Allan last week, calling for national regulations for battery disposal to reduce the amount of rubbish fires in New Zealand. https://lnkd.in/g4ejitji