Climate emergency declaration by New Zealand government includes commitment to 2025 targets
Source: RNZ News
Climate emergency declaration by New Zealand government includes commitment to 2025 targets
2 December 2020
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has committed the government and the public sector to going carbon-neutral by 2025, as she declared a climate emergency.
Ardern has moved a motion in Parliament this afternoon which would see New Zealand join 32 other nations in formally acknowledging the global crisis.
The motion was passed shortly before 4pm, with Labour, the Greens and te Pāti Māori all voting in support, and National and ACT opposed.
It includes a promise to set an example by reducing its own waste and emissions.
"[Parliament will] show leadership and demonstrate what is possible to other sectors of the New Zealand economy by reducing the government's own emissions and becoming a carbon-neutral government by 2025."
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Read more: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/431942/climate-emergency-declaration-by-new-zealand-government-includes-commitment-to-2025-targets
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Source: Associated Press
New Zealand symbolically declares climate emergency
By NICK PERRY
December 1, 2020
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Joining more than 30 countries, New Zealand on Wednesday took the symbolic step of declaring a climate emergency.
Lawmakers voted 76-43 in favor of the motion, in a split that followed party lines.
The government also launched a new initiative requiring many public agencies to become carbon neutral by 2025, in part by getting rid of coal boilers and buying electric cars.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the government usually declares emergencies only for things like natural disasters, but that if it doesn’t address climate change, such disasters will continue to happen.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/technology-climate-climate-change-new-zealand-financial-markets-a6b3325feb5083622a1707a79997f928