Also among the bold steps the recently-formed Climate Change Commission laid out in its just-issued draft advice was an end to coal heating, more forestry, greener homes and a waste-stripping "circular" economy. Labour has quietly shifted the goalposts on its first campaign promise of the 2020 campaign, a policy that would make it more difficult to plant swathes of prime food-producing land in trees to harvest carbon credits. Land of a higher ranking, deemed less essential for food production, could still be used for forestry as now. However both Nash and McAnulty said the Government will still enact policy to get the right trees planted in the right parts of rural New Zealand. Nash said he was talking to Climate Change Minister James Shaw about what changes "we need to make to actually give it the effect it should have".

Source: New Zealand Herald July 08, 2021 07:30 UTC