The Hon Jim Chalmers MP, Treasurer
The Hon Chris Bowen MP, Minister for Climate Change and Energy
We will travel to New Zealand today to meet our counterparts in Auckland to strengthen climate action, clean energy cooperation and regulatory alignment between Australia and New Zealand.
This is all about working across the Tasman to seize the golden economic opportunities of the net zero transformation, boosting trade and investment and making our economies more resilient and productive.
Delivering on our shared commitment to net zero is critical for investor certainty, cheaper, cleaner energy in our region and advancing climate action across the Pacific.
Our meeting with New Zealand's Finance Minister, Nicola Willis, and Climate Change and Energy Minister, Simon Watts, will be the third Australia-New Zealand 2+2 Climate and Finance Ministers' Dialogue.
This will include a focus on energy security, affordability and promoting sustainable finance.
By working together on regulatory reform we will pave the way for more renewable energy, storage and efficient products for households and businesses.
Treasurer Chalmers and Minister Willis will meet separately to discuss economic policy and the productivity opportunities being delivered and progressed following this year's Economic Reform Roundtable.
Minister Bowen will meet with solar and battery industry representatives to share the success of Australia's Cheaper Home Battery Program, and meet with Minister Watts to discuss working together to bring the world to the Pacific for Pre-COP in 2026.
Closer economic cooperation on cheaper and cleaner energy and modernising regulation could not be more important at a time of heightened global uncertainty.
