{"id":30864,"date":"2021-04-13T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T06:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/13\/new-zealand-emissions-rise-as-government-vows-urgent-action"},"modified":"2021-04-13T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T06:26:07","slug":"new-zealand-emissions-rise-as-government-vows-urgent-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30864","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand emissions rise as government vows urgent action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest figures show increase of 2% in 2018-19 driven by energy sector and rise in methanol production<\/p>\n<p>An increase in New Zealand\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions is a step in the wrong direction towards the country\u2019s goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, say experts, who have called on the government to bring in more radical action.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory, released by the minister for the environment on Tuesday, shows that both gross and net emissions increased by 2% in the 12 months to the end of 2019. The increase was predominantly driven by the energy sector and an increase in methanol production in the manufacturing industries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/13\/new-zealand-emissions-rise-as-government-vows-urgent-action\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest figures show increase of 2% in 2018-19 driven by energy sector and rise in methanol productionAn increase in New Zealand\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions is a step in the wrong direction towards the country\u2019s goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, say exp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1768,"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":[41,326,493,65,837,564,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-energy","category-environment","category-global-climate-talks","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","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\/30864","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\/1768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30865,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30864\/revisions\/30865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}