Resource Management (Energy and Climate Change) Amendment Act 2004
This Act updates the Resource Management Act 1991 and recognises the government’s preference for national co-ordination of controls on GHG emissions and gives greater emphasis to climate change and energy matters in resource management, planning, and decision-making. The Act makes explicit provisions within section 7 of the Resource Management Act 1991 for all persons exercising functions and powers under the Act to have particular regard to the:
• Effects of climate change (excluding the effects on climate change of discharges into air of greenhouse gases)
• The efficiency of the end use of energy
• Benefits to be derived from the use and development of renewable energy.
