Emission Source

Justification

Emission Level Scope

Schools

Excluded from scope as the ministry has no direct financial or operational control over individual schools. It was specifically mentioned in the Cabinet paper that schools would be encouraged, but not forced, to become part of the current scheme.

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Teachers - general

Excluded as non-departmental expenditure

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Teacher relocations

Excluded as non-departmental expenditure

1

Teacher payroll

Outsourced ministry function which should be included, however there is no mechanism for collection of data. To be looked into for next year.

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Crown entities

General rule for CNPS that Crown entities will not be included.

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Early childhood centres

Excluded from scope as the ministry has no direct financial or operational control over individual institutions.

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Universities and tertiary institutions

Excluded from scope as the ministry has no direct financial or operational control over individual institutions.

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Special Education field staff

Included for travel under reclaimed mileage. Otherwise excluded as they are not based in ministry offices but work with individual children in schools - electricity and waste emissions would be impossible to collect and immaterial in size.

1, 2

Business travel in taxis

Unable to obtain data. Data for taxi travel has proved difficult to obtain because it is collected in terms of dollar spend through the financial system - it falls within the travel account code in a mixture of spend types. It was not possible within the time to sort through the extremely large volume of data, and it is unlikely that it would be possible to identify all taxi related costs.

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Overseas-based education counsellors

All emission types for overseas-based education counsellors are excluded except air travel. All counsellors are housed within MFAT premises, so emissions relating to energy use and waste to landfill are included within MFAT's inventory where available.
Business travel by rental car/taxi/personal vehicle overseas - unable to obtain data.

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Staff commuting to work in personal cars

This is considered to fall under the personal carbon foot print of the employee as the agency has little control over where people choose to live; therefore this is outside the scope. Work will be undertaken to produce travel plans to help reduce these emissions.

Indirect
(Scope 3)

Purchased goods and services

The emissions associated with purchased goods and services make up the Scope 1 emissions of suppliers and would be included in their carbon footprint. The initiative for procurement of sustainable goods and services will help to change the ways in which we make procurement decisions so that they take into account the longer term sustainability implications and encourage suppliers to adopt sustainable business practices.

Direct
(Scope 1)

Carbon embodied within buildings

The production of steel, cement and other building materials make up the Scope 1 emissions of suppliers and would be included within their carbon footprint.

Direct
(Scope 1)

Corporate waste

Disposal of larger office items such as PCs and furniture is outside of the normal daily waste sent to landfill. The vast bulk of PC equipment is recycled through charitable trusts which make the equipment available to schools and families. Wherever possible, surplus furniture is sold or otherwise recycled. New procurement rules will help reduce larger items sent to landfill by looking at the full life cycle of products during the tendering process. This could increase the number of suppliers who will rent or take back goods when they are surplus to future requirements and ensure they are appropriately recycled.

Indirect
(Scope 3)

IT services

Where agencies have outsourced any IT services to third-party providers, these are excluded.

Indirect
(Scope 3)

Refrigerant emissions

Due to difficulties in measuring this type of emission, combined with their potentially low materiality, it has been decided that these will not be included within the scope of the initial inventories for the Carbon Neutral Public Service programme.

Direct
(Scope 1)

School transport

Emissions related to the provision of school transport are excluded. The vehicles used are owned by the service providers or the schools (under direct resourcing) and the carbon emissions would be included in the carbon footprint of the owners. The emissions do not result from work undertaken through Departmental Output Classes. The Ministry of Education contracts for the school transport services and will impact on the associated greenhouse gas emissions through the terms of the contracts.

Direct
(Scope 1)

Stand-by generator

The ministry owns one stand-by diesel generator, for the protection of the main data centre in National Office. The emissions from the generator's servicing and test runs are not regarded as material.

Direct
(Scope