Election year:
2023
Political party:
Labour
Associated politicians:
Policy:
Climate Change
- A second Emissions Reduction Plan that puts New Zealand on the path to achieving the Second Emissions Budget.
- Establishing a Minister for Just Transitions to oversee New Zealand’s transition to a low emissions economy.
- Delivering Empowering New Zealand: a 12-point plan to increase renewable electricity generation.
- Supporting the growth of NZ Green Investment Finance by investing a further $300m, bringing our total commitment to $1bn.
- Making climate change a research and development priority with an initial investment of $50 million, and a further $20 million specifically to tackle challenging parts of the economy.
- Removing diesel generators from all schools.
- Increasing our resilience as we build back from the severe weather events earlier this year and delivering a new climate adaptation and managed retreat framework to support local communities to plan, prevent and re-build.
- A Labour Government will ensure low- waste circular values are at the heart of a smart modern economy and protected environment.
- Labour will prevent more food waste from going to landfills, phase out hard-to-recycle single-use plastics, modernise recycling and landfills, deliver on our waste strategy, pass new waste legislation, resume work on a container return scheme, and progress several other waste minimisation initiatives.
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