{"id":74706,"date":"2025-10-13T13:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/13\/new-zealand-government-accused-climate-denial-methane-reduction-targets"},"modified":"2025-10-13T13:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:04:55","slug":"new-zealand-accused-of-full-blown-climate-denial-over-cuts-to-methane-reduction-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74706","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand accused of \u2018full-blown climate denial\u2019 over cuts to methane reduction targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers praised the move, but scientists and opposition parties criticised it as \u2018weak\u2019 and \u2018unambitious\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Environmental campaigners have accused New Zealand\u2019s government of \u201cfull-blown climate denial\u201d after it slashed targets for reducing emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand\u2019s<\/a> right-leaning coalition government outlined plans on Sunday to reduce methane emissions by between 14 and 24% by 2050, compared to 2017 levels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/13\/new-zealand-government-accused-climate-denial-methane-reduction-targets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers praised the move, but scientists and opposition parties criticised it as \u2018weak\u2019 and \u2018unambitious\u2019Environmental campaigners have accused New Zealand\u2019s government of \u201cfull-blown climate denial\u201d after it slashed targets for reducing emissions of m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,2331,65,653,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-farming","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\/74706","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74707,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74706\/revisions\/74707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}