Climate leaders' debate
Morning Report
English - October 02, 2023 19:10 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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With less than two weeks to go, this election is heating up - but so is the climate.
Our first big target for reducing emissions is set for 2030 - just seven years away. New Zealand has pledged a 41 percent reduction from 2005 levels across all sectors of the economy.
But according to government estimates, we are on track to overshoot this by 114 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO2-e).
That's more than double New Zealand's net emissions from 2021.
The next government's policies will be key to determining whether or not we meet the target.
Here to debate these issues and more we're joined by Megan Woods for Labour, Simon Watts for National and James Shaw for the Greens.
Corin Dann hosted the debate.