Happy Birthday Paris climate agreement, now please do some work
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...
Source: stuff.co.nz