{
    "name": "AI Policy Radar",
    "publisher": "Green Diplomat",
    "description": "Climate laws and carbon-pricing instruments classified by legal stage; every record cites the document it was checked against and the date of that check.",
    "url": "https://greendiplomat.com/ai-policy-radar/",
    "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
    "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "citation": "Green Diplomat (2026). AI Policy Radar: a verified tracker of climate laws by legal stage. https://greendiplomat.com/ai-policy-radar/ (accessed 7 October 2026).",
    "generated": "2026-10-07T05:07:21+00:00",
    "count": 1,
    "fields": {
        "record_id": "Stable identifier of the record (also the end of its web address).",
        "jurisdiction": "Country or sub-national jurisdiction that adopted the instrument.",
        "iso3": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code of the country.",
        "instrument_type": "Emissions trading system, carbon tax, framework law, target law, crediting mechanism, energy-transition law, disclosure / MRV rule.",
        "legal_stage": "In force · Enacted, not yet in force · In rulemaking · Proposed / announced · No binding instrument.",
        "stage_date": "Date the instrument reached its current stage (YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD, as precise as the source allows).",
        "legal_reference": "Act, decree or gazette reference.",
        "coverage": "Sectors, entities or share of emissions covered, as stated by the source.",
        "what_to_watch": "The next decision, deadline or review named by the source.",
        "source_name": "Publisher of the document the record was checked against.",
        "source_url": "Address of that document.",
        "source_type": "“official” (law, gazette, government or regulator) or “reference” (a recognised compilation such as ICAP).",
        "btr_status": "Indicative status for Biennial Transparency Reports: planned, adopted or implemented (see Standards).",
        "last_verified": "Date the record was last checked against its source.",
        "legal_journey": "Dated milestones (proposed, enacted, rulemaking, in force, later milestone), each with its own source. JSON and journeys.csv only."
    },
    "records": [
        {
            "record_id": "nz-ets",
            "jurisdiction": "New Zealand",
            "iso3": "NZL",
            "country": "New Zealand",
            "instrument_type": "Emissions trading system",
            "legal_stage": "In force",
            "stage_date": "2008",
            "legal_reference": "Climate Change Response Act 2002 (as amended, including by the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act 2019)",
            "coverage": "Forestry, stationary energy, industrial processing, liquid fossil fuels, waste and synthetic GHGs; roughly half of national GHG emissions",
            "summary": "The NZ ETS, launched in 2008 under the Climate Change Response Act 2002, prices roughly half of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions and includes forestry. Agricultural reporting obligations were repealed in 2024, and all four government auctions in 2025 failed to clear because secondary market prices stayed below the floor price.",
            "what_to_watch": "2026 auction settings (reserve price NZD 71; first cost containment reserve trigger NZD 201) and changes announced in late 2025 to reduce compliance costs and to remove the requirement for unit supply settings to accord with the Nationally Determined Contribution.",
            "source_name": "International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP)",
            "source_url": "https://icapcarbonaction.com/en/ets/new-zealand-emissions-trading-scheme",
            "source_type": "reference",
            "btr_status": "implemented",
            "last_verified": "2026-10-04",
            "region": "Asia-Pacific",
            "topics": [
                "Carbon Markets",
                "Carbon Pricing"
            ],
            "url": "https://greendiplomat.com/ai-policy-radar/nz-ets/",
            "legal_journey": [
                {
                    "date": "2008-09-25",
                    "milestone": "in-force",
                    "event": "ETS legislation receives Royal assent; forestry covered from 1 January 2008",
                    "source_url": "https://www.taxtechnical.ird.govt.nz/new-legislation/act-articles/climate-change-response-emissions-trading-amendment-act-2008"
                },
                {
                    "date": "2010-07-01",
                    "milestone": "milestone",
                    "event": "Stationary energy, industrial processes and liquid fossil fuels enter the scheme",
                    "source_url": "https://ao.parliament.nz/2011/emissions-trading-scheme/docs/emissions-trading-scheme.pdf"
                },
                {
                    "date": "2020-06-16",
                    "milestone": "milestone",
                    "event": "Parliament passes ETS reform introducing a cap on emissions",
                    "source_url": "https://icapcarbonaction.com/en/news/new-zealand-passes-legislation-finalizing-ets-reforms"
                },
                {
                    "date": "2021-03",
                    "milestone": "milestone",
                    "event": "Government auctioning of emission units begins",
                    "source_url": "https://icapcarbonaction.com/en/ets/new-zealand-emissions-trading-scheme"
                },
                {
                    "date": "2024",
                    "milestone": "milestone",
                    "event": "Legislation bringing agriculture into the scheme repealed",
                    "source_url": "https://icapcarbonaction.com/en/ets/new-zealand-emissions-trading-scheme"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}