The $24billion climate change penalty looming for NZ – This Government is burning our planet, when do you think consequences start?

Climate strategy ‘as useful as teats on a bull’, Greenpeace says

Greenpeace says the government’s five pillar strategy for tackling climate change is “about as useful as teats on a bull”.

The government announced its five climate pillars on Wednesday, but did not reveal any policy detail, saying that was coming in the next two weeks.

Climate Change Minister Simon Watts said the three-page strategy was a “comprehensive” and “ambitious” plan to reduce the impacts of climate change and prepare for its future effects.

Each of the five pillars was accompanied by three aspirational bullet points (e.g. “The costs of reducing emissions are minimised”) arising from the core goal set out in each pillar, but with no explanation as to how all this would be achieved. More details have been promised in the forthcoming Emissions Reduction Plan.

Climate groups slammed the strategy as meaningless and including nothing that would combat climate change.

Climate scientists and researchers were also highly critical, pointing to the lack of specificity, given how long the government has been in office and the large number of climate policies it has repealed.

Greenpeace said the strategy was “about as useful as teats on a bull”.

Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Sinéad Deighton-O’Flynn said the “so-called climate strategy” was a “kick in the guts for people around Aotearoa who had their homes and communities flooded recently due to extreme weather events.”

This Government’s environmental agenda amounts to Climate Fascism.

Their acquiescence to Corporate Dairy and Real Estate Pimps amounts to a climate change policy that will cost us $24Billion FFS…

1. 1. Simon Watts unveiled the Government’s long-awaited Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP), which shows the Coalition’s policies are forecast to increase net emissions by 22 million tonnes by 2030, which means the Government is set to fail to meet the third Zero Carbon Act Budget for 2030-35 and miss the net zero target for 2050. The Paris Agreement liability is estimated at 97 million tonnes (mt), which Treasury has estimated could cost up to $24 billion to ensure New Zealand can keep exporting to Europe and the UK.

…what is the actual solution here?

When we have to pay the $24billion once it is apparent that our emissions have gone up and not down, what exactly will the Right wing argument be?

Let me guess, the ZB Trolls will start screaming, “why are we paying $24billion for an agreement in Paris we shouldn’t have signed in the first place”.

What will the actual claim be? T

hat we don’t pay our international obligations?

That we don’t pay the $24billion?

Is that what the argument will be?

So it’s climate fascism that will side step our global obligations at a time when the planet is melting.

The heat is only building, it isn’t going down, we are seeing record breaking temperature after record breaking temperature.

There’s a tipping point within the population that will demand a radical re-ordering of the economy and society that shatters the current political spectrum…

1. 1. A US study has found insurance costs are set to rise 600-800% in coming years because of increased damage from storms and sea-level change caused by climate change.

…catastrophic climate change is here, this Government is simply pouring petrol on the fire.