Former Reserve Bank chairman Rod Carr will lead the Government's Climate Change Commission. National supported the first reading and are comfortable with the climate change commission itself, but not the emissions targets set in the bill, which it argues will hurt farmers too much. JASON DORDAY/STUFF Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says Extinction Rebellion protest disruption stopped people working to combat climate change. NZ First are also wary - particularly of the status of the Climate Change Commission, which it worried could gain fully independent Reserve Bank-like powers. Carr described himself as a "realistic optimist" - saying much more needed to be done on climate change.

Source: Stuff October 07, 2019 21:56 UTC