Climate Commission gives submitters more time

Climate Commission gives submitters more time
Staff reporters
The Climate Change Commission is giving firms and the public another two weeks to lodge submissions on its first carbon budgets.The commission — He Pou a Rangi — said it had already received more than 350 submissions on its draft advice to the government.But chair Rod Carr said it recognised that stakeholders need more time to consider the commission’s data and develop informed submissions.“We needed to balance the time needed by stakeholders to consider our data as part of their submissions, with the work evaluating sub...