{"id":44710,"date":"2022-05-22T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/may\/21\/new-zealands-promised-action-on-climate-is-nothing-more-than-a-tottering-babys-first-steps"},"modified":"2022-05-22T05:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T20:00:28","slug":"new-zealands-promised-action-on-climate-is-nothing-more-than-a-tottering-babys-first-steps-sue-bradford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44710","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s promised action on climate is nothing more than a tottering baby\u2019s first steps | Sue Bradford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of taking on vested interests in the agriculture and corporate sectors, the government continues to take the line of least resistance<\/p>\n<p>On the campaign trail during New Zealand\u2019s 2017 election, Labour leader Jacinda Ardern talked about climate change as her generation\u2019s \u201cnuclear-free\u201d moment. She went on to become prime minister, taking Labour to a second-term victory in 2020 with an outright majority, unusual in New Zealand\u2019s proportional representation system.<\/p>\n<p>Her preface to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/19\/new-zealand-budget-2022-ardern-cost-of-living-storm-health-climate\">this week\u2019s budget<\/a> talks about \u201cmaking investments to secure our future\u201d and says it \u201cmakes the greatest strides in climate action by any government to date\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/may\/21\/new-zealands-promised-action-on-climate-is-nothing-more-than-a-tottering-babys-first-steps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of taking on vested interests in the agriculture and corporate sectors, the government continues to take the line of least resistanceOn the campaign trail during New Zealand\u2019s 2017 election, Labour leader Jacinda Ardern talked about climate cha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3083,"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":[41,2331,65,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-jacinda-ardern","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\/44710","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\/3083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44711,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44710\/revisions\/44711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}