Hipkins adds to climate confusion with $2b BlackRock fund

Hipkins adds to climate confusion with $2b BlackRock fund
The answer to what the government's climate change policy is may be blowing in the wind. (Image: NZME)
Dileepa Fonseka
At the meat industry conference this week, Meat Industry Association chair Nathan Guy was pining for the climate change fighting days of Jacinda Ardern.  The former National minister related a story of walking into a He Waka Eke Noa (a group set up to help develop agriculture climate change policy) meeting ready to shoot some “arrows” at Ardern on behalf of the industry, but then facing someone fully aware of what those arrows were.  “At that meeting, we realised that prime minister Ardern was completely across the d...

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