The New Zealand government reached an agreement with the Maori Party which will ensure that legislation setting up an emissions trading scheme (ETS) can be passed by Parliament this week, Climate Change Minister Nick Smith announced on Monday.
None of the other parties support the bill and Smith needed the Maori Party's five votes in the Parliament to enact it.
The ETS is a modified version of the one passed by the previous government before last year's election.
Smith said the agreement with the Maori Party included inserting a Treaty of Waitangi clause in the bill, insulating a further 8,000 homes occupied by low income families and protecting the integrity of previous treaty settlements.
The New Zealand government is keen to pass the amended scheme into law before the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen in December.