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On the 29th of October, the EPA will be publishing participant level data on emissions and removals, as required under s89A of the Climate Change Response Act.
On June 9, He Pou a Rangi - the Climate Change Commission – provided its first advice to Government. You can find the information here. It provides advice to the New Zealand Government on its first three emissions budgets and direction for its emissions reduction plan 2022 – 2025.
Please take a few minutes to read our updated Privacy statement especially if you are considering participating in the upcoming ETS auctions.
Should you make an application for auctioning, your identifying information, including your identity as an account holder and information that corresponds with that included in your auctioning application, will be disclosed to NZX Ltd for the purpose of verifying that this information aligns with the corresponding information submitted to NZX Ltd as part of the auction application process. This information will be disclosed to NZX for verification before each auction. If you are an account operator, your identity will be disclosed. If the information does not align, NZX Ltd will inform us of the discrepancies and your application may be declined. Please let us or NZX Ltd know if you do not wish to continue to participate in auctions so we can stop sharing this information.
If you are going to use the Fixed Price option (FPO), you should be aware changes have been made to how this is applied. Guidance is available on the EPA website here. Please contact the EPA at emissionstrading@epa.govt.nz if you have further questions about using this option.
If you are an ETS participant or have obligations under the Climate Change Response Act 2002, there will be changes that will affect you. On 23 June 2020 a number of changes to the ETS came into effect. These included operational and technical changes to the ETS, as well as changes to the fixed price option (the ability to pay money rather than surrendering units). From 1 January 2021 further changes come into effect. Some of the key changes you should be aware of are new penalties, including a strict-liability penalty for failing to surrender or repay units by the due date, introduction of an infringement regime, introduction of auctioning into the ETS, and the phasing out of industrial allocations from 2021. Emissions and removal information, and information about certain penalties incurred by participants will be published. Keep up-to-date with the detail of these changes and how they will affect you. We will continue to communicate about the changes to the ETS.
The new ETS Reports for 2019 are now available.
The government call centre that normally handles our calls is currently unavailable. However, you can reach our staff directly on the following numbers:
If you have any questions about your Registry account, or general questions about the ETS you can call Dave Stuart on 04 474 5750 or Guy Windley on 04 474 5514.
These people will be available between 9.00am – 4.00pm Monday to Friday, and will do their best to answer your calls as quickly as possible. You can always leave a message and they will get back to you as soon as they can.
Thank you to everyone who completed the survey. Below are some of the themes we heard, and what we’re doing to address them.
Understanding and navigating the Register
Getting in touch with us
Reminders for upcoming deadlines
Transferring units
The EPA publishes aggregated figures annually regarding ETS activities and surrenders. This report has been posted on the EPA website.
Your ETS register account should always remain secure. If you suspect that someone else knows your username or password, contact the EPA immediately and change your password.
Here’s some quick tips to keep your account secure
Here at the EPA we’re always looking for ways to improve the way we do things, and to make our processes easier to understand. To do that we need to hear from people in the Emissions Trading Scheme who are using the Register, about what’s working well and what isn’t. Provided you don’t opt out, a link to the survey would be sent to you in an email by our third party survey provider BigEars. BigEars will collect and store any feedback you chose to give and provide it to us for our analysis. We’ll use the feedback to help improve our service delivery and the way we operate, and to meet any of our legal obligations. If you’d rather not receive a survey invitation – please opt out by emailing emissionstrading@epa.govt.nz using ‘Survey opt out’ in the subject line. Opting out of our survey won’t opt you out of receiving important updates and information about legislative changes. We look forward to hearing your feedback.
Participants with obligations or repayments arising from an amended return or default assessment are ineligible to use the Fixed Price Option (FPO), as per section 178A of the Climate Change Response Act 2002. Ministers have been informed, and until they make their decisions we cannot advise further. If you are unsure if you are eligible to meet an ETS obligation or repayment using the FPO please contact the EPA to discuss (0800 254 5628 or emissionstrading@epa.govt.nz), prior to the due date. If an FPO transaction is set up to meet an obligation or repayment which is not allowed under s178A the EPA will decline the application, and you will be required to surrender units.
The sharing of usernames and passwords to allow people to access accounts would be considered a breach of the terms and conditions of use of the Register and in that case we may then refuse access to, or suspend access to, the NZ Emissions Trading Register without prior warning.The Registrar takes the security and integrity of the NZ Emissions Trading Register extremely seriously and therefore cannot condone the sharing of login information under any circumstances. The Registrar also has a responsibility to the International community and would be in breach of the operational guidelines set out by the International Transaction Log of the UNFCCC.
A reminder that the 'one for two' phase out is happening in three stages, for the following reporting periods:
Equivalent changes apply so that recipients of Other Removal Activities entitlements receive a phased increase to their entitlement.
There is no change to obligations for agriculture participants as they are not currently required to surrender New Zealand Units (NZUs) to account for their emissions.
We've created a video to help you see how the new register will work for you.
It shows you how to login, and navigate through to do different tasks.
Link https://vimeo.com/179691351
We've written three guides to help make it easy for you to use the New Zealand Emissions Trading Register.
The NZETR has been designed to be intuitive, and guide people through the different tasks they need or want to do to take part in the Emissions Trading Scheme.
If you get stuck, or want to have a little more information, the guides can help you.
The New Zealand Emissions Trading Register will work best with the latest version of the following browsers:
All the migration codes we sent to let people transfer to the new register have now expired.
If you didn't use yours in time, you'll have to contact us on 0800 CLIMATE (0800 254 628) to get a new one emailed to you. When you call, select Option 2, and be prepared to answer some security questions to confirm your identity.
Login as an 'existing user' if you were a user of the old register, the New Zealand Emissions Unit Register
To login, go to www.emissionsregister.govt.nz and click on the RealMe login field.
You will have two options from this window:
When you've logged in using RealMe, you'll be taken to a new page to enter a few details to link your RealMe identity to your NZETR account.
Note: Ignore the section for new users – this is for people who weren't users of the NZEUR (the old Register).
Enjoy the new register
When you've done this, you should have access to all your details. Take a moment to check everything works for you.
Now you've logged in successfully with your new migration code, in future you'll only need your RealMe login.