{"id":38518,"date":"2021-10-31T12:12:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T03:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/31\/new-zealand-pledges-to-halve-greenhouse-emissions-by-2030"},"modified":"2021-10-31T12:12:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T03:12:30","slug":"new-zealand-pledges-to-halve-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38518","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand pledges to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Cop26 climate summit about to begin, PM Jacinda Ardern says \u2018it\u2019s critical we pull our weight\u2019<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has pledged to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030, toughening its previous ambitions to limit global warming on the eve of the United Nations Cop26 climate conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we are a small contributor to global emissions, as a country surrounded by oceans and an economy reliant on our land we are not immune to the impact of climate change, so it\u2019s critical we pull our weight,\u201d prime minister Jacinda Ardern said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/31\/new-zealand-pledges-to-halve-greenhouse-emissions-by-2030\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Cop26 climate summit about to begin, PM Jacinda Ardern says \u2018it\u2019s critical we pull our weight\u2019New Zealand has pledged to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030, toughening its previous ambitions to limit global warming on the eve of t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,2331,65,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38518","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38519,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38518\/revisions\/38519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}