{"id":11785,"date":"2019-12-04T10:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T01:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/04\/climate-change-to-steer-all-new-zealand-government-decisions-from-now-on"},"modified":"2019-12-04T10:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T01:42:21","slug":"climate-change-to-steer-all-new-zealand-government-decisions-from-now-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11785","title":{"rendered":"Climate change to steer all New Zealand government decisions from now on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Shaw says environmental factors will be \u2018at the forefront of our minds\u2019 when major decisions are made<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are expanding our coverage of New Zealand. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/au\/contribute?acquisitionData=%7B%22componentType%22%3A%22ACQUISITIONS_EDITORIAL_LINK%22%2C%22source%22%3A%22GUARDIAN_WEB%22%2C%22campaignCode%22%3A%22AUS_EDITORIAL%22%2C%22componentId%22%3A%22All-blacks_pool_games%22%2C%22referrerPageviewId%22%3A%22k29tioyrpu8gase2vrly%22%2C%22referrerUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fsport%2F2019%2Foct%2F26%2Fnew-zealand-england-steve-hansen-kieran-read-rugby-world-cup-semi-final%22%7D&amp;INTCMP=AUS_EDITORIAL\">Please help us by supporting our independent journalism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A climate change \u201clens\u201d will now be applied to all major decisions made by the government, New Zealand\u2019s climate change minister has said, as floods and bushfires wreck havoc around the country in the first week of summer.<\/p>\n<p>Minister James Shaw said cabinet \u201croutinely\u201d considers the effects of its decisions on human rights, the Treaty of Waitangi, rural communities, the disability community, and gender.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/04\/climate-change-to-steer-all-new-zealand-government-decisions-from-now-on\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Shaw says environmental factors will be \u2018at the forefront of our minds\u2019 when major decisions are madeWe are expanding our coverage of New Zealand. Please help us by supporting our independent journalismA climate change \u201clens\u201d will now be applied &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"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":[41,326,65,564,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785","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\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11786,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785\/revisions\/11786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}