{"id":37229,"date":"2021-09-23T08:47:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T23:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/sep\/23\/the-delay-to-new-zealands-emissions-reduction-plan-is-embarrassing-we-need-action-now"},"modified":"2021-09-23T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T23:47:31","slug":"the-delay-of-new-zealands-emissions-reduction-plan-is-embarrassing-we-need-action-now-adam-currie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37229","title":{"rendered":"The delay of New Zealand\u2019s emissions reduction plan is embarrassing \u2013 we need action now | Adam Currie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time we postpone change we make it harder to transition to the low-carbon economy we need to help prevent global heating<\/p>\n<p>Last week, New Zealand\u2019s government announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=D&amp;q=https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/environment\/climate-news\/126391576\/government-pushes-climate-plan-release-back-five-months&amp;ust=1632281940000000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1nq6zeCJ61nNIVhJhc1kO0&amp;hl=en-GB&amp;source=gmail\">a five-month delay<\/a> to the emissions reduction plan (ERP) \u2013 its key programme for combatting climate change. This is gutting \u2013 climate decisions by many organisations and institutions have been delayed since 2017; first to wait for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/07\/ardern-says-new-zealand-on-right-side-of-history-as-mps-pass-zero-carbon-bill\">Zero Carbon Act<\/a>, then the advice of the Climate Change Commission, and now the ERP, which won\u2019t be announced until the budget in May.<\/p>\n<p>The postponement even requires an embarrassing legislative change to the Zero Carbon Act to get around the December 2021 deadline for the plan, which is currently enshrined in law. Every day of delay makes the transition we will have to make to a low-carbon Aotearoa \u2013 and the ability to make it fair for affected communities \u2013 more and more difficult.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/sep\/23\/the-delay-to-new-zealands-emissions-reduction-plan-is-embarrassing-we-need-action-now\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time we postpone change we make it harder to transition to the low-carbon economy we need to help prevent global heatingLast week, New Zealand\u2019s government announced a five-month delay to the emissions reduction plan (ERP) \u2013 its key programme for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2597,"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":[41,326,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-new-zealand","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\/37229","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\/2597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37230,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37229\/revisions\/37230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}