Election 2020 - Party Policies - Environment - Climate Change
25th Jul 20, 5:55am
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- Introduce a no-nonsense climate change plan which ties New Zealand’s carbon price to the prices paid by our top five trading partners.
- Ask politicians to pledge to cut flights to Wellington by 25 percent.
- Read more here.
- Establish a clear strategy, action plan and carbon budget for a rapid transition to a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy, in line with keeping the average global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
- An independent Climate Change Commission will advise the government.
- Take steps to achieve a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy in Aotearoa New Zealand by 2050.
- All polluting sectors should pay the costs of their emissions and there should be no free rides. Emissions pricing should be transparent and should incentivise emissions reduction.
- Subsidies to the fossil fuel sector should be rapidly phased out.
- Read more here and here.
- Prevent unnecessary waste by phasing out single use and hard to recycle plastics and by creating a $50m Plastics Innovation Fund to develop alternatives
- Reduce waste by investing in waste infrastructure and projects, and by establishing mandatory product stewardship schemes
- Improve domestic recycling through making it harder to export plastic waste and by standardising kerbside collection of recycling and food waste
- Phase out coal-fired boilers and decarbonise public transport buses
- Continue working with farmers and boost funding across agricultural climate change research
- Phase out fossil fuels in process heat by preventing installation of new low and medium temperature coal-fired boilers
- Decarbonise the public transport bus fleet by 2035
- Support agricultural climate change research programmes
- Read more here.
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- Supports the necessity for a transition to a zero carbon future where people and planet and business can all thrive.
- Recognise that climate change is interconnected with many other environmental and social sustainability issues.
- Encourage a platform in which businesses feel safe and encouraged to measure and report their greenhouse gas emissions, assist with setting public emissions reduction, and working within their own sectors to reduce their emissions.
- Enabling members to measure, report on, and reduce their emissions, particularly on New Zealand’s key transition opportunities.
- Support our members to build the resilience to adapt to a changing climate.
- Read more here.
- Wean our country off fossil fuels by 2050. If we are smart, we can do this in a way that improves our overall prosperity.
- TOP would ‘dump the junk’ credits held by the government by cancelling surplus credits as at 2020 and ensuring our Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) stays closed to international trade.
- Ensure the Emissions Trading Scheme works properly, ploughing all revenue from a higher carbon price into helping households and businesses become more energy efficient, reducing their costs and emissions.
- Ensure all large new investments take into account our low carbon future.
- Reforest 1.1m ha of erosion prone land as soon as possible.
- On agriculture, improving water quality will be our first priority, but this will help reduce nitrous oxide emissions (and possibly methane also).
- Read more here.
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