“Even if NZ is a ‘small’ country when it comes to generated emissions it is alarming that country after country fails to reduce their emissions,” another says.
In 2019, the Government passed the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill, which sets a target of zero carbon emissions by 2050 and commits to global effort under the Paris Agreement to limit the global average temperature increase to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
The Climate Change Commission said in June that the Government isn’t on track to meeting its net zero emissions target by 2050. Although the commission’s chairperson Dr Rod Carr said it is still possible to make transformational and lasting change through rapid uptake of electric vehicles, changing farming practices, slashing use of fossil fuels, and growing more forests.
“Why are you attacking the most environmentally efficient farmers in the world?”
