{"id":55365,"date":"2023-05-22T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T01:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/22\/new-zealand-announces-its-biggest-emissions-reduction-project-in-history"},"modified":"2023-05-22T10:07:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T01:07:15","slug":"new-zealand-announces-its-biggest-emissions-reduction-project-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55365","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand announces its biggest emissions reduction project in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move to power Glenbrook steel plant with electricity from renewables rather than coal will reduce emissions by 1% \u2013 or the equivalent of taking 300,000 cars off the road<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has announced its largest emissions reduction project in history, transitioning from coal to renewable electricity at the country\u2019s major steel plant in a move that the government says is equivalent to taking 300,000 cars off the road.<\/p>\n<p>The government will spend $140m on halving the coal used at Glenbrook steel plant to recycle scrap steel, replacing that generating power with an electric-powered furnace. The plant will contribute $160m to the project\u2019s cost.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/22\/new-zealand-announces-its-biggest-emissions-reduction-project-in-history\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move to power Glenbrook steel plant with electricity from renewables rather than coal will reduce emissions by 1% \u2013 or the equivalent of taking 300,000 cars off the roadNew Zealand has announced its largest emissions reduction project in history, trans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,2331,589,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-coal","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55365","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55366,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55365\/revisions\/55366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}