The Government has just committed to reducing less than 1 percent of the country s emissions by 2025.
Thunberg described the article as an explainer on New Zealand s so-called climate emergency declaration and called the climate emergency declaration in Parliament nothing unique to any nation .
More than 30 other countries had already declared a climate emergency. Greta Thunberg is essentially pointing out what we already know: that we have a long way to go to narrow the gap between what our emissions are right now, and what they need to be in the future, Shaw told Newshub. We are working on this as quickly as we can and the declaration of a climate emergency is actually helping - because now every part of Government is clear that action to cut emissions is a priority.
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So, what s in our current promise, and can we meet it? Sleepy start Before Paris was born, in the 1990s, New Zealand promised to cut emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Since Kyoto is now nearing 30, you might think the difficult mahi would be well underway by now. Emissions have been hovering around 80 million tonnes a year since about 2003. That’s a high footprint per capita. Recently, the Government has improved the scaffolding around our emissions efforts. It placed a long-awaited cap on the quantity of emissions that can be traded inside the Emissions Trading Scheme, installed an independent Climate Change Commission, to map the path to carbon neutrality, and told big companies to be more transparent about the risks climate changes poses to their bottom lines.