NZ’s carbon targets ignored domestic reduction potential

Were NZ's carbon emissions reduction targets a "relatively arbitrary political decision"? (Image: Getty)

Wed, 28 Sep 2022

New Zealand has made undertakings to cut greenhouse gases that treat the country’s actual capacity to cut emissions as “irrelevant”, committing the country to pay for carbon credits on international markets to meet most of its obligations, say two senior climate change analysts.In the second of a five-part BusinessDesk series, former international climate change negotiator Adrian Macey and climate change scientist Dave Frame argue that the government made a “somewhat arbitrary political decision” on NZ’s targ...

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