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Soft emissions target might rise
2013-08-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Zealand Herald: The Government has adopted a soft unilateral target for reducing carbon emissions by 2020, but Climate Change Minister Tim Groser said a future Government might lift it, should progress towards an international agreement post-2020 warrant it. He announced yesterday that New Zealand had committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. It is an end-point target, unlike the target for the first period of the Kyoto Protocol, which was to reduce average emissions...
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