How can NZ close the Paris Agreement 'emissions gap'?

How can NZ close the Paris Agreement 'emissions gap'?
The Government is investigating carbon credits in the Asia-Pacific region. (Image: Getty)
Greg Hurrell
New Zealand is tentatively exploring options to buy overseas emissions credits but hasn’t committed to using them to close its international “emissions gap”.The Government issued its first two-yearly progress report on Dec 19 about how it is tracking on NZ’s Paris Agreement obligations.Central to that is how well the country is doing in achieving its first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC1) out to 2030.The Ministry for the Environment (MfE) progress report follows the release of the second Emissions Reduction Plan...

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