{"id":53393,"date":"2023-03-14T10:38:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T01:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/14\/ruthless-chris-hipkins-backpedals-on-climate-action-as-new-zealand-elections-near"},"modified":"2023-03-14T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T01:38:47","slug":"ruthless-chris-hipkins-backpedals-on-climate-action-as-new-zealand-elections-near-henry-cooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53393","title":{"rendered":"Ruthless Chris Hipkins backpedals on climate action as New Zealand elections near | Henry Cooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern called climate change the \u2018nuclear-free moment\u2019 of her generation. Her replacement doesn\u2019t seem so sure<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hipkins loves to cycle.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s newish prime minister, who stepped into the job after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/19\/jacinda-ardern-resigns-as-prime-minister-of-new-zealand\">Jacinda Ardern\u2019s shock resignation<\/a> earlier this year, has been pedalling the 30km from his home in Upper Hutt to parliament for years. It\u2019s not a particularly safe route, with many sections where Hipkins would be riding right alongside 100kmh traffic. It\u2019s this kind of danger that stops cycle commuting from being particularly mainstream \u2013 just 2% commuted by bike at the last census \u2013 but this is far from a political priority for Hipkins. He loves to cycle, but the main thing he wants to do is win.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/14\/ruthless-chris-hipkins-backpedals-on-climate-action-as-new-zealand-elections-near\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern called climate change the \u2018nuclear-free moment\u2019 of her generation. Her replacement doesn\u2019t seem so sureChris Hipkins loves to cycle.New Zealand\u2019s newish prime minister, who stepped into the job after Jacinda Ardern\u2019s shock resignation ea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3237,"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":[41,2832,65,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-chris-hipkins","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","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\/53393","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\/3237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53394,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53393\/revisions\/53394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}