"Our Clean Energy Plan is the first part of our transformational plan to end the use of fossil-fuels in Aotearoa. The Greens are proposing to bring forward the government's 100 percent renewable energy target by five years to 2030 and re-instate the ban on building new fossil fuel electricity generation. Clean Energy PlanEstablish a Clean Energy Industry Training Plan to support thousands of people into jobs. Create a $250 million Clean Energy Fund which communities can draw from for local renewable energy projects. Energy spokesperson Gareth Hughes said the Clean Energy Plan "allows us to go further and faster on climate action by supporting all of us to move to clean energy".

Source: Otago Daily Times July 12, 2020 00:33 UTC