PM to miss announcementIt’s been nearly five years since prime minister Jacinda Ardern said that “climate change is my generation’s nuclear-free moment”. The prime minister won’t be there because she’s isolating with Covid. Deputy prime minister Grant Robertson will front instead, alongside climate change minister James Shaw. It was a source of national pride, just like “clean, green New Zealand”, but as we’ve lagged on climate change action (with New Zealanders split on whether they’re embarrassed by our climate action to date) the power of evoking parochial pride has waned. While most of us say we want more action on climate change, we’re less likely to say we won’t drive petrol cars as much.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 15, 2022 21:45 UTC