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The government has quietly rejected Climate Change Commission advice to set a much more ambitious 'net negative' long-term target for carbon emissions.
Instead, it will retain the original 2050 goal of net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide and other long-lived gases.
That's despite warnings from the Climate Change Commission that the effects of climate change are hitting the country sooner and more severely than expected, and that New Zealand can and should be doing more.
A climate policy expert says the decision is "incredibly consequential" and should have been communicated more transparently.
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts
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