{"id":17457,"date":"2020-04-23T09:18:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T00:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/apr\/23\/covid-19-crisis-reset-economies-sustainable-footing"},"modified":"2020-04-23T09:18:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T00:18:19","slug":"the-covid-19-crisis-creates-a-chance-to-reset-economies-on-a-sustainable-footing-james-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17457","title":{"rendered":"The Covid-19 crisis creates a chance to reset economies on a sustainable footing | James Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand climate minister says governments must not just return to the way things were, and instead plot a new course to ease climate change <\/p>\n<p><em>James Shaw, New Zealand\u2019s climate change minister, has asked the country\u2019s independent climate change commission to check whether its emissions targets under the Paris agreement are enough to limit global heating to 1.5C. He explains why he\u2019s prioritising the issue during a strict national lockdown to stop the spread of Covid-19, which could send New Zealand\u2019s unemployment rate soaring.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To say that we find ourselves in an unprecedented moment is so obvious and has been so often repeated it\u2019s almost become white noise. What is less obvious, however, is where we go from here.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/apr\/23\/covid-19-crisis-reset-economies-sustainable-footing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand climate minister says governments must not just return to the way things were, and instead plot a new course to ease climate change James Shaw, New Zealand\u2019s climate change minister, has asked the country\u2019s independent climate change commis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1237,"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":[41,326,1069,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/17457","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\/1237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17458,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17457\/revisions\/17458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}