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New Zealand to revise NDC after commission calls for much bigger emissions cuts

Published 03:31 on January 31, 2021  /  Last updated at 00:05 on February 2, 2021  / /  Asia Pacific, New Zealand

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Sunday announced New Zealand would revise its Paris target after advice from the independent Climate Change Commission said the country needs to do much more to help meet the global 1.5C goal, a move that could bump the country's carbon credit needs over the next decade to 64-104 million.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Sunday announced New Zealand would revise its Paris target after advice from the independent Climate Change Commission said the country needs to do much more to help meet the global 1.5C goal, a move that could bump the country's carbon credit needs over the next decade to 64-104 million.


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