NZ a 'pariah' if oil and gas exploration is revived
NZ a 'pariah' if oil and gas exploration is revived
World Wildlife Fund NZ chief executive says National's plan to restore offshore oil and gas exploration will meet significant international backlash
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Doubt it. I don't think the world wildlife fund ceo is representing the world's views here.
From early in the article
This is despite warnings from the International Energy Agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Institute for Sustainable Development and (as of last week) the UN Environment Programme that searching for new fossil fuels is not consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5C.
I still don't think anyone cares what those agencies have to say. Nz won't become a pariah over this.
When I was a gullible teenager I would have sided with the WWF, but since I'm an adult now, I realise it's a lobby group with an agenda, and they are just fear-mongering.