{"id":32317,"date":"2021-05-21T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/21\/the-climate-crisis-deserves-more-than-small-change-in-new-zealands-budget"},"modified":"2021-05-21T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T01:55:00","slug":"new-zealands-budget-needed-to-allocate-more-than-small-change-to-the-climate-crisis-robert-mclachlan-and-paul-callister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32317","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s budget needed to allocate more than small change to the climate crisis  | Robert McLachlan and Paul Callister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate politics is a long game but people must see more positive changes to really appreciate the benefits of ending fossil fuels<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand emissions trading scheme (ETS), now in its fourteenth year of operation and much criticised for (so far) <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.planetaryecology.org\/2021\/04\/18\/why-did-new-zealands-co2-emissions-blow-out-so-spectacularly-in-2019\/\">failing<\/a> to cut emissions, is the centrepiece of the government\u2019s climate action. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/new-zealand-budget-2021-ardern-welfare-covid-19-child-pvoerty-housing\">Judging from Budget 2021<\/a>, it will remain that way for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Auctioning of emissions units began in March, and 2022 will see the introduction of a falling cap on net emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases. (The precise level of the cap will be announced later in the year.) <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/21\/the-climate-crisis-deserves-more-than-small-change-in-new-zealands-budget\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate politics is a long game but people must see more positive changes to really appreciate the benefits of ending fossil fuelsThe New Zealand emissions trading scheme (ETS), now in its fourteenth year of operation and much criticised for (so far) f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2198,"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":[41,326,56,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-new-zealand","category-science"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32317","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\/2198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32318,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32317\/revisions\/32318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}