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3 days ago · Due to new accounting decisions by the Government, however, the numbers aren’t perfectly comparable. New Zealand’s current NDC is in fact an emissions budget – in addition to aiming for 50 percent lower emissions by 2030, it seeks to achieve a 41 percent reduction in emissions across the full decade of the 2020s.

6 days ago · However, it indicated last year it was preparing a range of “trade-offs and reprioritisations” as part of a project to manage cost and demand pressures in the coming years.. As part of the Government’s foreign policy “reset”, officials have been asked to significantly increase their focus and resources for South East Asia, South Asia and North Asia, as …

Jan 14, 2025 · The Government's planned repeal of the oil and gas ban has contributed to New Zealand's plummet in a global climate policy ranking. Photo: Getty Images Two key events in February will set the direction of New Zealand’s clean, green reputation for the rest of the year – and perhaps even many ...

Dec 6, 2024 · Newsroom political editor Laura Walters, senior political reporter Marc Daalder and co-editor Tim Murphy ask if the national and international mood on dealing with climate change is enabling National, Act and NZ First to give up, even if just a little, on our national targets.

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Nov 28, 2024 · NZGIF’s deal pulling together $365m of public and private money to finance New Zealand’s solar energy rollout had won the IFLR Asia-Pacific Deal of the Year award earlier this year – but now the sun’s gone behind a cloud.

Oct 18, 2024 · Not all the lessons learned from Covid-19 have been incorporated into the Ministry of Health’s new pandemic plan, infectious diseases professor David Murdoch and former director-general of health Sir Ashley Bloomfield write in the New Zealand Medical Journal published on Friday.. Murdoch, who advised the previous government on its Covid-19 response and served on two advisory panels during ...

Jul 17, 2024 · Fig 3.2: The risk that the NZ ETS alone does not encourage enough removals to achieve net zero by 2050. The Government conceded it is not currently on track to meet net zero but said future emissions budgets and emissions reduction plans would correct the …