What are New Zealand's international climate targets and do we really have to meet them?

Posted: 20 Mar 2025

The government says it is committed to the Paris target.

Both Climate Change Minister Simon Watts and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon say this often - and National promised before the election that climate targets were not up for debate.
 

But saying you are committed and doing what is needed are two different things.

And in New Zealand's case, doing what is needed almost certainly means spending money in someone else's economy.

In an environment of cost-cutting at home, Ministers seem to have decided they do not want to try to sell that.
 

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