{"id":72226,"date":"2025-06-10T11:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T02:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/10\/new-zealand-government-sued-over-dangerously-inadequate-emissions-reduction-plan-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T02:11:57","slug":"new-zealand-government-sued-over-dangerously-inadequate-emissions-reduction-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72226","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand government sued over \u2018dangerously inadequate\u2019 emissions reduction plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive: <\/strong>In the first legal challenge to the plan, top climate lawyers claim the government relies too heavily on forestry and failed to consult the public<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of top environment lawyers are suing the New Zealand government over what they say is its \u201cdangerously inadequate\u201d plan to reduce emissions to net zero by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time the country\u2019s emissions reduction plan has faced litigation, and the lawyers believe it is the first case globally that challenges the use of forestry to offset emissions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/10\/new-zealand-government-sued-over-dangerously-inadequate-emissions-reduction-plan-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: In the first legal challenge to the plan, top climate lawyers claim the government relies too heavily on forestry and failed to consult the publicHundreds of top environment lawyers are suing the New Zealand government over what they say is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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-72226","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\/72226","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72243,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72226\/revisions\/72243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}