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Greater clarity needed surrounding NZ's climate goals

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 9 Apr 2024, 8:12AM
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Greater clarity needed surrounding NZ's climate goals

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 9 Apr 2024, 8:12AM

A push for clarity around the effects of New Zealand's soon to be updated climate goals. 

The Climate Commission has released a draft emissions budget, which recommends limiting greenhouse gas by 134-million tonnes between 2036 and 2040. 

Federated Farmers President Wayne Langford told Mike Hosking that at the moment they're just numbers, without much economic modelling around them.  

He says it's needed so people know that if we get rid of petrol cars what this is going to look like and how the economy is shaped up to handle this. 

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