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Raising cost of flights to New Zealand a good thing, says Air NZ adviser

What is the best way to measure Air New Zealand s commitment to sustainability? The national airline’s chief environmental adviser supports price hikes which would put some people off flying here and curb “thoughtless, heedless tourism”, David Williams reports Hiking the price of international flights to pay for greenhouse gas emissions, putting some people off flying here, would be a good thing, Air New Zealand’s chief environmental adviser Sir Jonathon Porritt says. His comments follow a suggestion from Simon Upton, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, for a distance-based passenger tax – adding as much as $155 to an economy class fare to the United Kingdom, or $25 to the cheapest seats to Australia – to fund climate-based initiatives. Such a fund might raise up to $400 million a year.

Covid-19: Developments from 4 March, 2021

Photo: RNZ / Simon Rogers, Dom Thomas, Supplied / Ministry of Health, RNZ / Dan Cook Cabinet will decide if the seven days of lockdown - that began on Sunday - is long enough to be satisfied there s no widespread transmission. In today s Covid-19 briefing, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said it still had not been a week on from the last known public exposure event at an Auckland gym, where a positive case had visited whilst unknowingly infectious. He said in the next 24 hours, officials would want to see test results from that gym before deciding about alert levels. Professor Philip Hill who specialises in international health at the University of Otago told Checkpoint the time and course of that case s illness as well as the environment could be factors in that decision.

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