{"id":38218,"date":"2021-10-21T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T05:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/21\/new-zealand-becomes-first-country-to-force-finance-companies-to-act-on-climate-risks"},"modified":"2021-10-21T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T05:30:16","slug":"new-zealand-becomes-first-country-to-force-finance-companies-to-act-on-climate-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38218","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand becomes first country to force finance companies to act on climate risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country hopes to ensure effects of climate crisis are always considered in business, investment, lending and insurance decisions<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has become the first country in the world to pass a law forcing financial institutions to disclose and, the government says, act on climate-related risks and opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an opportunity to pave the way for other countries to make climate-related disclosures mandatory,\u201d climate change minister James Shaw said. \u201cNew Zealand is a world-leader in this area and the first country in the world to introduce mandatory climate-related reporting for the financial sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/21\/new-zealand-becomes-first-country-to-force-finance-companies-to-act-on-climate-risks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country hopes to ensure effects of climate crisis are always considered in business, investment, lending and insurance decisionsNew Zealand has become the first country in the world to pass a law forcing financial institutions to disclose and, the gove&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[41,65,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","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\/38218","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38219,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38218\/revisions\/38219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}