Election year:
2023
Political party:
Act
Associated politicians:
Policy:
Climate Change
- ACT will ask politicians to pledge to cut flights to Wellington by 25 percent.
- Repeal the Zero Carbon Act, including the Climate Change Commission, and instead tie New Zealand’s emissions cap to our trading partners’ emissions so New Zealand businesses can be competitive overseas.
- Scrap unrealistic targets set by Jacinda Ardern and James Shaw to reduce net emissions by 50 per cent below gross 2005 levels by 2030.
- Return Emissions Trading Scheme revenues to New Zealanders through a carbon tax refund.
- Repeal virtue signalling laws and spending that have no effect on climate change because the ETS caps emissions - like the oil and gas ban, 100 per cent renewable electricity generation, the Clean Car Discount, and any spending on mitigation in areas that are covered by the ETS.
- Allow overseas mitigation.
- Adopt a split gas emissions reporting approach which accurately reflects the actual warming effect of methane emissions.
- Ensure farmers are able to offset all on-farm sequestration from their emissions liability.
- Remove barriers stalling the uptake of emissions reducing technologies.
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