Cases mentioned

• Lawyers for Climate Action NZ v. The Climate Change Commission
• Thomson v Minister for Climate Change Issues [2017] NZHC 733
• Hauraki Coromandel Climate Action Inc v Thames-Coromandel District Council [2020] NZHC 3228
• In the Matter of The Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975, In The Waitangi Tribunal, WAI 2607
• New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney-General [1994] 1 NZLR 513
• Teitiota v Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment  
• UN Human Rights Committee Views Adopted on Teitiota Communication

For more country specific context and relevant national climate change law see: https://climate-laws.org/geographies/new-zealand

This country report has been produced by Marta Solari, C2LI Research Assistant, Catherine Hall, C2LI Senior Research Assistant, and Amelia Burnette, C2LI Legal Analyst, with support from Dr. Caroline Foster, C2LI National Rapporteur for New Zealand. The summary is based on Caroline Foster, “Climate Change Litigation in New Zealand” in F. Sindico and M. Moise Mbengue, Comparative Climate Change Litigation: Beyond the Usual Suspects, Springer, 2021.