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By working together we can solve the climate challenge - but we need to move faster!

The Green Party is leading action to ensure our emissions are reduced, whilst supporting communities to make the necessary changes and ensuring people aren’t left behind.

Our Climate Action Plan

Change is already underway, and includes:

1. Driving down emissions by fixing the Emissions Trading Scheme.
2. Ensuring major polluters pay by phasing out their free allocation of carbon credits.
3. Establishing an independent Climate Commission to advise the government.
4. Government funding for innovation, research and redevelopment into low emissions technologies.
5. Establishing a Green Investment Fund that encourages private investment into low carbon technologies.
6. Making large companies report on the financial risks they face relating to climate change.
7. Setting a fair price for agricultural emissions.
8. Making clean and electric cars more affordable with a clean car discount and clean car standard.
9. Government funding for electric vehicle chargers.
10. Investing in clean transport infrastructure like trains, buses, and bike lanes.
11. Making it easier to build new clean electricity generation like windfarms and solar.
12. Working with major industrial coal users to help them transition to cleaner alternatives, including biomass.
13. Phasing out the government’s own coal use, such as to heat schools and hospitals.
14. Working with local councils to reduce waste going to landfill.
15. Establishing “one stop shops” for farmers to get rid of agricultural waste like chemicals and silage wrap.
16. Updating the Building Code to encourage environmentally friendly building materials and techniques.
17. Setting stronger energy efficiency standards for new buildings.
18. Encouraging more medium density, affordable housing instead of urban sprawl.

These are all part of our cross-Government action plan to tackle the climate challenge.

We will continue to advocate for further and faster action.

Show your support to end housing inequality

New Zealand’s housing market is becoming increasingly divided between people who own their own homes and those forced to rent for life with no chance of ever buying a home.

Here’s how the Green Party plans to end housing inequality: 

1. We’ll introduce our rent-to-own policy as part of the KiwiBuild Reset. Our rent-to-own policy will offer a pathway to those locked out by student debt, high rents, low wages, high housing costs, and high costs of raising a family. We’ll be offering a pathway to home ownership for anyone who has enough money to pay their rent, but not enough money to save a deposit.

2. We'll focus on those most in need of support with a plan to end homelessness through the Housing First programme, increasing incomes, and radically increasing state housing as an essential part of public infrastructure. 

3. We’ll reform the Residential Tenancies Act this term, to end no-cause terminations and ensure everyone has a secure home to live in. 

4. We’ll continue pushing for a Rental Warrant of Fitness, to ensure minimum standards for rental properties so that New Zealanders who are renting can have confidence that their house is dry, warm and healthy to live in, no matter what. 

A binding referendum has been confirmed for 2020 on legalising and regulating recreational cannabis. Sign up today to show your support and stay in the loop on this sensible drug law reform.    

"We're proud of our democratic MMP system, we need to secure equal access to it and protect against corruption"
- Golriz Ghahraman MP, Green Party spokesperson for electoral reform.  

You can find more detail of the changes we're proposing here.

Our oceans are polluted with plastics. 

It’s an issue that needs us all to work together. Government, citizens, and businesses producing throwaway packaging and products that damage our environment.

Do you know products with excessive plastic packaging and businesses that could step up to change their plastic packaging ways? Let them know how could change by filling out this form. We’ll make sure they receive it.

Families are living in poverty thanks to unfair sanctions and low payments.

It’s time to change all that and put aroha and compassion back into how we support our most vulnerable. Are you in?

Here’s what the Green Party is calling for:

1. Increase baseline benefits
Our social support system shouldn’t leave the most vulnerable people living in poverty. No matter who you are in New Zealand, you should have enough to live with dignity.

2. Remove sanctions
Sanctions punish people for being poor. Kiwis know it’s about time we offered support for those trying to find work, rather than making things harder for them.

3. Change the benefit reduction threshold
Right now, benefit reduction thresholds are so low that people are often put a worse financial position than if they didn’t work at all. We want to increase this threshold, so no one is worse off for finding casual or part-time work.

4. Combine the In Work Tax Credit & the Family Tax Credit
Every child deserves a great start in life, but the In-Work Tax Credit only goes to some families – punishing people who can’t work. Let’s combine it with the Family Tax Credit, so all children benefit.

5. Moving towards a just system of individual needs
People are penalised for falling in love. We need to move towards a just system of entitlements based on individual need so that people can be in relationships of mutual support without fear of losing their financial independence.

Show your support and sign on to our plan.

Sign on to show your support for an Independent Commissioner for Animals so we can give animals a voice and end cruelty.

Aotearoa New Zealand is one of the few countries in the world to teach so little about its own history in the core curriculum.

Parihaka is just one of many historical events not taught regularly across our education system.

Students in schools around Aotearoa are missing out on the important history of Māori, Pākehā and Te Tiriti - Treaty of Waitangi.

Today’s education needs to include place based education which affirms tangata whenua experience of history, and helps us all understand who we are and where we come from. Learning about colonisation and what happened for Māori is good for all of us.