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NZ accused of breaking climate change promise with EU, but Todd McClay rejects claim (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/politics@lemmy.nz

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A Dutch environmental group claims New Zealand has broken its climate change promises in the free trade agreement with the EU and is lodging the first complaint of its kind through the European Commission.

The most extreme consequences could be losing access to the lucrative European market, but the group is seeking compliance rather than the suspension of trade benefits.

It claims New Zealand failed to uphold its legal commitments in the EU-NZ FTA not to weaken environmental protections in order to "encourage trade or investment," and to effectively implement the Paris Agreement.

But the Trade Minister is firing back, saying its "not for overseas countries, organisations or lobby groups to tell New Zealand how to meet its obligations".

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

We are well within our emissions budget at 5m people. We are following the Chinese method, we are a developing country therefore our emissions don't count. We will start reducing in 2050