Climate Commission issues a yellow card on emissions progress

Posted: 31 Jul 2024

Almost all of the Government’s climate policy faces moderate or significant delivery risks, the Climate Change Commission has found in its first-ever monitoring report on emissions reductions.

Agriculture and transport sectors show the largest risks, the commission warned, with the Government offering almost no policy to reduce pollution from livestock and failing to maintain the electric vehicle uptake rates achieved under Labour.

While New Zealand is on track to meet the first emissions budget, covering 2022 to 2025, this is “highly uncertain” and “there are significant risks to meeting the second and third emissions budgets and the 2030 biogenic methane target”.

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