New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment’s Emissions Plan
No road to Net Zero:
As a result of the Climate Change Response Act 2002, the New Zealand government needed to perform a country-wide consultation and come up with a plan to reduce emissions by 31 May 2022.
The Ministry of Environment needed to gather citizen feedback across all sectors of public life and the economy on how to achieve Net Zero. This required getting responses from the individual citizen, businesses of all sizes and from different industries to craft the multi-sector strategy for climate change.
Surveying emissions
Using Citizen Space, they gathered qualitative data that included regional and demographic information not supplied through other consultation responses. This gave a window into the inclusiveness of the consultation and its respondents.
With an online, interactive survey platform they could offer two levels of consultation response – quick submission and long-form responses that shaped the details of the emissions plan. This provided the general public with an accessible, simple option while providing the ability for deeper, qualitative responses from businesses, industries and more engaged citizens.
A positive environmental impact
The Ministry for Environment received 1,259 quick responses and 682 long-form submissions from Citizen Space. Thanks to Delib’s handy export features, they then fed these into their qualitative analysis software to provide a coded analysis of responses.
This allowed the New Zealand government to form a plan of attack that targeted sector specific changes, aligning government strategy with community and business’ priorities.
Delib is a govtech leader specialising in consultation and engagement, trusted by over 600 government organisations worldwide, including major planning projects. Since 2004, we've been building secure, accessible digital platforms to make participation simpler, fairer, and more inclusive. Our flagship product, Citizen Space, was built in collaboration with the UK government and has supported more than 11 million responses across over 110,000 democratic activities.