New Zealand has its own view
The Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key is probably not going to Copenhagen and doubts there will be a deal on climate change. Not a big, binding and lasting deal. Not one that might be called historic or that locks the United States and China, the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas emitters.
He said ”What you will get out of it, is you’ll get a high-level political statement and work program in 2010.”
Mr Key is certainly not a climate change sceptic and believes the world has a ”moral obligation” to deal with climate change, and that consumers – more to the point, voters – broadly agree that action is necessary but objects to some of the financial implications of the proposed agreement.
The real question is, what do you do?
In New Zealand about 70 per cent of its energy already comes from renewable sources.
Mr Key says, the growth of emissions has been completely offset by planting 600,000 more trees.
Primary production in New Zealand accounts for about 48 per cent of the economy (against about 16 per cent in Australia) and half of all greenhouse emissions come from agriculture.
They have been rolling back the ETS introduced by a previous government. Interesting.
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