Five ways NZ is failing to address climate change

Five ways NZ is failing to address climate change
Policy lurches, delay and irrational barriers hamper climate action. (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
If hand-wringing were a cure for both climate change and poverty, the world would be cooling and everyone would be wealthy by now.Instead, as the visible impacts of climate change gather pace, the costs of adapting to those impacts, let alone slowing or reversing them, are growing.Yet the starker the challenge, the more paralysed political decision-makers appear to become.At the same time, the evidence mounts that New Zealand needs to invest heavily in skills, industries, technologies and public services – think infrastructure, health and...

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