National Party leader Christopher Luxon this morning said a concrete plan was needed. We have to act, it's not an option, but it also presents a number of opportunities for us as well." Govt approach 'possibly' too conservative - Luxon New Zealand will continue to see the economic pain of the climate crisis. I think the overall message for all of us. "It's another reason why our forthcoming emissions reduction plan is so important. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the emissions trajectory was "bending" but needed to continue to fall. we've dabbled half-heartedly with things like the emissions trading scheme and so on but it's really only in the last few years that we've really started to roll that out." "We've kind of been kicking the can down the road for the better part of 30 years. Those kinds of technologies may come online but just having a hope that those things might occur doesn't mean that you shouldn't do everything in your power now. "It does feel like everyone's waiting for the silver bullet of a methane vaccine or something like that to happen. "Farmers are better off, they're less in debt, they're making more money, they're getting better value at market and they're reducing emissions simultaneously. Some farmers were reducing herd sizes in a way that was beneficial for them, he said. I said that actually, as part of that answer, that what you need to do is do the things that we currently have technology for." "I got asked in the house do I think it is necessary, and technologically there actually are things on the horizon that may mean that you don't actually need to reduce herd sizes but. In Parliament this month he agreed with statements by Minister of Agriculture Damien O'Connor that herd reductions would not be necessary to achieve New Zealand's emission reduction ambitions, but this afternoon he was more strident. The biggest opportunities to reduce emissions were in agricultural methane and carbon emissions from transport, Shaw said. "It will set out how we will meet our first emissions budget and include policies and strategies to reduce emissions in key sectors like transport, energy, waste, building and construction, agriculture and forestry." New Zealand needed to secure its part in the future by making sure Aotearoa was carbon-neutral, he said, pointing ahead to the government's first Emissions Reduction Plan, saying it would provide a comprehensive list of actions. "Clearly a pandemic is not the way to tackle climate change," Shaw said in a statement this morning. The report out today found the reduction was mainly down to lower road, air and sea travel and reducing manufacturing fuel use.
Shaw is hyping up next month's emissions reduction plan after the release of the government's latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory, which found weeks of lockdowns in 2020 cut emissions by just 3 percent compared to 2019, but it was still 21 percent up on 1990 levels.
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