Swarbrick wants to build a mass climate movement

Posted: 25 Mar 2024

The new Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick believes the general public can play a greater role in pushing for climate action and hopes to encourage that when she likely takes on the party’s climate change portfolio after James Shaw leaves Parliament.

One potential opportunity to rally that nationwide climate movement is the Government’s plan to repeal the offshore oil and gas ban.

She says “I think that this is one of the most obvious and self-evident and least complicated anti-climate policies that the Government has put forward. I do think that this can very much capture the imagination of New Zealanders because it speaks to the antithesis of how we tend to want to view ourselves, least of all on the world stage.”

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