ELECTION 2020: Aggressive decarbonisation needed now - Greens

ELECTION 2020: Aggressive decarbonisation needed now - Greens
Gavin Evans
Climate policy in the next government will focus on tangible ways to cut emissions, Green Party co-leader James Shaw says. The current government spent much of the past three years putting in place the institutions and high-level frameworks to provide business a stable policy environment for the country’s evolution to a net-zero carbon economy by 2050, Shaw told guests at a Wellington Chamber of Commerce function on Tuesday. The next government would be more focused on things like transport, energy and agriculture and the measures for tho...

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