Scott Simpson, New Zealand's National Party environment spokesman, stunned a trans-Tasman investment meeting last week by stating that climate action was "too important to be playing politics with”.
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| Agriculture accounts for half of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions - and will be the central to that country's climate action. |
Or rather, it was the Australian delegates who were shocked, so used are they to the toxic debates in Canberra.
"It made my jaw drop, that's for sure," said Emma Herd, chief executive of the Investor Group on Climate Change.
Read the story from The Age by Peter Hannam - “‘Jaw dropping': New Zealand offers lessons in tackling climate change.”
