NZ First does not have a dedicated climate change policy. Its 2023 manifesto is here.

Identified climate change policies include the following:

“New Zealand First believes that our country must have an active role to play in international politics. We believe in promoting New Zealand’s interests and facilitating cooperation and trust between other nations. It is through our foreign policy that New Zealand gains fair free trade agreements, cooperation on pressing issues such as climate change resilience, and sound representation of our citizens living abroad.

● New Zealand First will not support emissions pricing in any form unless adopted by trading partners, especially the European Union

● NewZealand First supports the adoption of standardised farm level reporting

● New Zealand First will incentivise the uptake of the emissions reduction mitigations, such as low methane genetics, and low methane producing animal food, by repurposing money funded by the emissions trading scheme revenue and funds earmarked for the purchase of overseas carbon credits. Support developing science, which is common sense as opposed to consigning and transferring billions of dollars from our economy to foreign economies as our response to climate change action.”

“The renewal of the inshore fishing fleet is a matter of critical importance. NZ First will collaborate with the industry to establish a mechanism to expedite the development of a modern and climate friendly fleet.”

“A sharper focus will be placed on kelp growing as a possible blue carbon contribution towards net zero, with priority access to research funding.”

“New Zealand First is committed to ensuring that our energy sector is sustainable because our environment and decarbonisation must be at the forefront of our country’s thinking. Businesses that operate within the sector must be given surety, and this includes consumers of energy. Long term planning is required across diverse sectors and industry to ensure energy and electricity costs do not increase for all users. It would be disingenuous of New Zealand to simply move the problem of carbon offshore.”