08.07.2015 - Emissions cuts deeper: Groser
The Government will take a highly conditional pledge to cut New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to 11 per cent below 1990 levels - and therefore about 28 per cent from current levels - to the Paris climate conference in December. The conference is intended to agree to a global deal to curb emissions more ambitious and wide-ranging than anything international negotiations have yet accomplished. Climate Change Minister Tim Groser said the target is expressed as a cut of 30 per cent from 2005 levels to make it more readily comparable to the approach of the United States and Canada. "It is a significant increase on our current target for 5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020."..............................................Full Article: Source
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