{"id":10835,"date":"2019-11-07T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/07\/ardern-says-new-zealand-on-right-side-of-history-as-mps-pass-zero-carbon-bill"},"modified":"2019-11-07T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T06:00:47","slug":"ardern-says-new-zealand-on-right-side-of-history-as-mps-pass-zero-carbon-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10835","title":{"rendered":"Ardern says New Zealand on &#8216;right side of history&#8217; as MPs pass zero-carbon bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centre-right opposition National party throws support behind the legislation that has been applauded around the globe<\/p>\n<p>Jacinda Ardern\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/08\/new-zealand-introduces-bill-for-zero-carbon-emissions-by-2050\">landmark climate legislation<\/a> has passed in New Zealand parliament, with historic cross-party support, committing the nation to reduce its carbon emissions to zero by 2050 and meet its commitments under the Paris climate accords.<\/p>\n<p>The climate change response (zero carbon) amendment bill passed on Thursday afternoon with the centre-right opposition National party throwing their support behind it late in the day, despite none of their proposed amendments being accepted. The bill passed 119 votes to one.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/07\/ardern-says-new-zealand-on-right-side-of-history-as-mps-pass-zero-carbon-bill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre-right opposition National party throws support behind the legislation that has been applauded around the globeJacinda Ardern\u2019s landmark climate legislation has passed in New Zealand parliament, with historic cross-party support, committing the n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,326,65,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10836,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions\/10836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}