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
The international headlines about NZ recently have been quite embarrassing... we definitely seem to be a country going backwards on climate change, reducing smoking and COVID (and probably other things).
Some of the recent climate change articles are getting rather nutty. They are talking about BBQ and gas cooking as if it was a bad thing, and in an article about housing, one author claimed that climate change would alter the housing market, by destroying houses in floods. They cannot go five minutes without injecting their climate change theory into everything.
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.