Small end of town needs to chip in on climate change - Carr

Small end of town needs to chip in on climate change - Carr
Gavin Evans
Corporate New Zealand is increasingly engaged on the real challenges of climate change but the nation’s efforts will need to be much broader based to be effective, the new head of the Climate Change Commission says. Rod Carr, previously Vice-Chancellor of Canterbury University and a former chairman of the Reserve Bank, says shifting an economy from a fossil-fuel base to a net zero emissions model is not trivial and will not be achieved if people believe only other people will be affected by the changes required. “All of us are going to ch...

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