{"id":25298,"date":"2020-12-02T11:42:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T02:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/02\/new-zealand-declares-a-climate-change-emergency"},"modified":"2020-12-02T11:42:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T02:42:57","slug":"new-zealand-declares-a-climate-change-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25298","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand declares a climate change emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern calls climate change \u2018one of the greatest challenges of our time\u2019 and pledges carbon-neutral government by 2025<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has declared a climate change emergency and committed to a carbon-neutral government by 2025, in what the prime minister Jacinda Ardern called \u201cone of the greatest challenges of our time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A motion tabled in parliament on Wednesday recognised \u201cthe devastating impact that volatile and extreme weather will have on New Zealand and the wellbeing of New Zealanders, on our primary industries, water availability, and public health through flooding, sea level rise, and wildfire\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/02\/new-zealand-declares-a-climate-change-emergency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern calls climate change \u2018one of the greatest challenges of our time\u2019 and pledges carbon-neutral government by 2025New Zealand has declared a climate change emergency and committed to a carbon-neutral government by 2025, in what the prime mi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1368,"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-25298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25298","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\/1368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25299,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25298\/revisions\/25299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}