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The government has rejected all of the Climate Change Commission's recommendations to strengthen New Zealand's emissions targets.
The move comes despite the Commission warning the effects of climate change are hitting New Zealand sooner and more severely than expected, and that New Zealand can and should be doing more.
The coalition had already indicated it would reject recommendations to strengthen the 2050 targets for methane and carbon emissions.
Earlier this year it announced it would amend the law to set a weakened methane target, down from a 24-47 percent reduction by 2050, to a 14-24 percent red
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