Environmental regulation stringency — emissions caps, standards, phase-out mandates, carbon pricing, renewable portfolio standards.
Sector-specific licensing regimes, concentration / quota allocation, state-controlled entry (energy, telecoms, healthcare, banking).
Targeted industrial and sectoral subsidies (renewable energy, chip manufacturing, agriculture, green hydrogen, etc).
Policy posture toward energy supply security — domestic production capacity, import diversification, strategic reserves, nuclear stance, fossil-fuel mix discipline.
The Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading Reform) Amendment Act 2020 overhauled New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme by introducing an absolute unit cap aligned with carbon budgets, a price-stability cost-containment reserve and floor price, auctioning of NZUs (replacing free allocation through 2020), and tighter forestry accounting under averaging. The reform converted the ETS from a non-binding intensity instrument into a quantity-binding scheme consistent with the Zero Carbon Act framework.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.