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Promise: Electric Vehicles
“This ambitious plan to take real action on climate change will involve all New Zealanders. This government will act as a role model, showing leadership by requiring State-owned enterprises and other government organisations to pursue low-carbon options and technologies, including electric vehicles for all Government vehicle fleets.
Speech from the Throne
Altered Promise:
The Government quietly dropped their commitment this year to making the entire Government fleet emissions-free by mid-2025.
“When the coalition Government came into power in late 2017, the agreement between Labour and New Zealand First stipulated that the entire fleet would be emissions-free by mid-2025, ‘where practicable.’ Although it was repeated as recently as June, that goal has been quietly revised to a commitment that, after mid-2025, all new vehicles entering the fleet will be emissions-free.”
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Promise: Green Investment Fund
“The agreement between Labour and the Green Party also provides for up to $1 billion of new investment to be stimulated in low carbon industries by 2020, kick-started by a government-backed Green Investment Fund of $100 million.”
Speech from the Throne
Incomplete Promise:
The money is allocated, but not a single cent of the $100 million Green Investment Fund that was supposed to kick-start $1 billion of investment in ‘low carbon’ industries has been invested.
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Promise: Low Carbon Investment
“The agreement between Labour and the Green Party also provides for up to $1 billion of new investment to be stimulated in low carbon industries by 2020, kick-started by a government-backed Green Investment Fund of $100 million.”
Speech from the Throne
Broken promise:
Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions say the Green Investment Fund is looking at a number of opportunities, but the bottom line is this Government hasn’t delivered.
Not a single cent of the Government’s side of the bargain has been invested, which is why not a single dollar of private sector money has been either.
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Promise: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
“Climate change is the greatest challenge facing the world. If we do not urgently reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases, warming will disrupt the climate which our agriculture and other industries depend upon, and sea-level rise will affect our coastal cities, along with other profound changes.”
Speech from the Throne
Broken promise:
Not only have they failed to deliver on this promise but emissions have gone up!
The Climate Change Minister admitted emissions are increasing under this Government and will continue to for the next five years. National has supported a legislative framework in the form of the Zero Carbon Bill that will help deliver on everyone’s goal of reducing emissions.
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- What They Promised vs What They Delivered: Part one.
- What They Promised vs What They Delivered: Part two.
- What They Promised vs What They Delivered: Part three.
- What They Promised vs What They Delivered: Part four.
- What They Promised vs What They Delivered: Part five.
- What They Promised vs What They Delivered: Part six.
- What They Promised vs What They Delivered: Part seven.
- What They Promised vs What They Delivered: Part eight.
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