| A climate change lawyer is recommending the substantive part of a review of New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme be held until after a major international climate change conference scheduled for the end of the year. In July, Climate Change Issues Minister Tim Groser confirmed a long-awaited ETS review would begin in 2015.
Bell Gully partner Simon Watt said the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which opens in Paris on November 30, could set entirely new parameters. Aimed at setting post-2020 emissions targets internationally, some reports have described the conference as the most important climate change event since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997...............................................Full Article: Source |