by Katie Sassenberg | Mar 21, 2025 | Emissions Trading Scheme
This recent article, Stubborn NZUs Create an Asymmetric Trading Opportunity explores the current market dynamics and what they mean for those involved in forestry, emissions trading, and carbon offset strategies. Whether you’re directly trading NZUs or just...
by admin | Jan 8, 2025 | Emissions Trading Scheme
Important Update for Landowners! – Restriction on New Forest Land that can be Registered in the ETS Starting Oct 2025 New policy regarding the ETS has been circulated by the government on the 4th of December, which may be of importance to you. Coming into effect...
by admin | Jan 7, 2025 | Emissions Trading Scheme
Important Update for Landowners! – Claim Your NZUs for 2024 with a Provisional Emissions Returns (PER) Submissions for Provisional Emissions Returns (PER) are now open until June 30, 2025. NZUs accrued during the year January-December 2024 will be added to your...
by admin | Sep 25, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
The New Zealand Government is currently introducing new methods to Post-1989 forest carbon accounting to help reduce the harvest liabilities for landowners, therefore making the NZETS more attractive. The biggest of these changes is the introduction of the ‘averaging’...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
Under the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme, for participants with less than 100 hectares registered, New Zealand Units (NZU’s) are allocated according to the standard Te Uru Rakau lookup tables. Pinus radiata forests receive units under regional averages while...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, PlotSafe
When comparing edge trees with “normal” trees (found inside a stand) it becomes obvious they can be significantly different. A generalisation is often that edge trees are shorter and fatter (greater taper) and also tend to have large branching. An edge...
by admin | May 19, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Cloud Services, Company Updates, DataPlus Mobile, Emissions Trading Scheme, Environmental, Forest Inventory
We are excited to be working with the Department of Conservation (DOC) on the development of a Managed Service for infield electronic data capture of vegetation data collected by DOC for the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) Land Use Carbon Analysis System (LUCAS)...
by David Herries | Dec 21, 2018 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
Interpine has completed its 3rd year of a 5 year program to measure New Zealand’s National Plantation Forestry Carbon Inventory. Plots have been established or re-measured across the country since 2007 and this current program is the 3rd year of a 5 year...
by admin | Oct 14, 2013 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
Currently the price of international Kyoto units (called ERUs) are worth substantially less than NZUs, with ERUs priced at $0.34 compared to NZUs at $4 (pricing as at 17/10/2013). Under current ETS rules these ERUs are acceptable replacement units for forest owners...
by admin | Aug 6, 2013 | Emissions Trading Scheme
A quick update for land owners of Pre-90 forest, as it relates to the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme. By now you have received the second and final tranche of NZUs for your Pre 1990 allocation. These units have been transferred into your holding account from the Crown....
by admin | Aug 6, 2013 | Emissions Trading Scheme
A quick update for forest owners of registered post-89 forest, as it relates to the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme. Post 1989 Mandatory Return Entitlement By now you would have received your carbon credit entitlement for the 2008-2012 period (five years) claimed under...
by admin | Apr 30, 2013 | Cloud Services, Emissions Trading Scheme, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
GeoMaster provides support for the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) by recording how much of your forest overlaps areas registered as Post 1989 carbon accounting areas (CAAs) and areas classified as Pre 1990 forest land. The ETS support works within...
by admin | Mar 14, 2013 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) are now releasing formally derived carbon yield lookup tables for participates in the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). These have been created specific to the forest and forest type based on inventory data collected through the...
by David Herries | Nov 6, 2012 | Carbon Inventory, DataPlus Mobile, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
Interpine has completed ahead of time, the Nationwide Forest Carbon Inventory for Re-measurement of Post 1989 Forests completed over the winters of 2011,2012. A total of 202 and 193 plots were established or re-measured across the country in 2011 and 2012...
by David Herries | Jan 14, 2012 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
A freely available publication and data collection template is now available to help forest owners and forest inventory providers with electronically capturing carbon forest inventory data for the MPI Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) Forest Measurement Approach (FMA)....
by David Herries | Oct 17, 2011 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, PlotSafe
Interpine is working on PlotSafe templates to allow the electronic data collection of ETS Forest Measurement Approach using New Zealands most used Forest Inventory Software. This generic public template will allow users to collect data on windows mobile handheld...
by David Herries | Sep 14, 2011 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
The New Zealand ForestTech 2011 conference was held recently in Rotorua. Interpine’s David Herries presented to the delegates a review of a standardised data collection system for electronic collection, storage and export of carbon forest inventory measurement...
by David Herries | Sep 2, 2011 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory
As of 1 Sept 2011, MAF have now released the New Zealand Emission Trading Scheme Forest Measurement Approach (FMA). Participates can now register to apply for their sample locations, and begin to organise field measurement operations. Interpine has been involved in...
by David Herries | Aug 17, 2011 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
The government is providing landowners of eligible pre-1990 forest land with a one-off allocation of free NZ units (NZU’s – the unit of trade in the NZ ETS which represents 1 tonne of CO2 emissions). The deadline for this allocation is 30 November 2011. If you...
by David Herries | Mar 24, 2011 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, LUCAS
Interpine is set to continue working with the Ministry for the Environment (MFE) to implement a planted forest inventory system for carbon monitoring. Previous planted forest measurement season were completed in 2007,2008 and 2010 by Interpine on plantation forests...
