OIA24-0820
13 November 2024
Craig Innes
[FYI request #29062 email]
Dear Craig Innes
Thank you for your email of 5 November 2024 requesting information relating to the
Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Your request has been considered under the Of icial
Information Act 1982 (OIA).
You requested the following:
Please supply the GIS data for all registered Emissions Trading Scheme forests within the
Greater Wellington Regional Council region.
Unfortunately, due to specific obligations to maintain confidentiality set out under section 99
of the Climate Change Response Act 2002 (CCRA), Te Uru Rākau - New Zealand Forest
Service is not able to provide any maps showing areas currently or previously registered in
the ETS.
Section 99(2)(a) of the CCRA states:
A person to whom this section applies must keep confidential all information that
comes into the person’s knowledge when performing any function or exercising any
power under this Part and Part 5.
Te Uru Rākau - New Zealand Forest Service considers that providing the location of these
forests is covered by section 99 of the CCRA. As a result of this, your request for this
information is refused under section 18(c)(i) of the OIA,
as the making available of the
information requested would be contrary to the provisions of a specified enactment.
The Ministry for Primary Industries is satisfied that in the circumstances of this case, the
withholding of the information is not outweighed by other considerations which render it
desirable in the public interest to make the information available.
However, we are able to provide the below link which provides a guide to the imagery
resources used by Te Uru Rākau - New Zealand Forest Service in GIS assessments:
https:/ www.mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/27999/direct
We are also providing the link below to a publicly available land use mapping database, the
Land Use Carbon Analysis System (LUCAS) Land Use Map 2020. This database was
established by the Ministry for the Environment and Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
and includes indicative post-1989 and pre-1990 forest land:
https:/ data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/117733-lucas-nz-land-use-map-2020-v003/
Charles Fergusson Building, 34-38 Bowen Street
PO Box 2526
Wellington 6140, New Zealand
mpi.govt.nz
Should you have any concerns with this response, I would encourage you to raise these with
the Ministry for Primary Industries at
[email address]. Alternatively, you
are advised of your right to also raise any concerns with the Office of the Ombudsman.
Contact details are: Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143 or at
[email address].
Yours sincerely
Amber Bill
Director Forestry ETS Operations
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