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27 Dec 2024 06:00:40

'Self-serving' methane change could mix science with political views - climate group

Posted: 03 Dec 2024

The executive director of a climate lobby group says she fears the government's methane review will be used to present politics as scientific fact, bypassing the Climate Change Commission because it was not giving the answers the government wanted.

 

The government appointed an independent science panel to look at whether New Zealand's 2050 climate target was consistent with achieving "no added warming" from methane.

 

Its report was due to go to Cabinet ministers last Friday but has not been publicly released yet.

 

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