The Climate Change Commission's first report has been released, with a raft of targets proposed to cut emissions. Dr Rod Carr thought he had retired. Climate Change Minister James Shaw​ asked in 2019 if he would consider chairing the Climate Change Commission​, charged with nothing less than keeping current and future governments on track towards Zero Carbon Act targets. He isn’t being smart when he says this, as he is legally blind, but expressing something important about how the climate change problem became real and urgent for him. “The challenge for climate change is there isn’t really a vaccine.

Source: Stuff February 26, 2021 16:01 UTC