In response to the Ministry for the Environment's just-released inventory, Climate Change Minister James Shaw said every part of Government would need to take "urgent action" to turn the picture around. Overall, New Zealand's emissions in 2019 amounted to 82.3 Mt CO2-e, of which about 46 per cent came from CO2, 42 per cent from methane, and 10 per cent from nitrous oxide. Still, the Climate Change Commission's recent draft report showed New Zealand wasn't on track to miss its locked-in commitments by millions of tonnes of CO2-e. "What this makes absolutely clear is that every part of Government must now come together and help to deliver an Emissions Reduction Plan in line with what the Climate Change Commission recommends," he said. Climate Change Minister James Shaw says every part of Government will need to take "urgent action" to ramp down New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 13, 2021 00:04 UTC