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Thursday, 20 May 2021, 2:12 pm
· $300 million to accelerate investment in low-carbon
technology
· $67.4 million to implement the Carbon
Neutral Government Programme, including a significant boost
of $19.5 million to the successful State Sector
Decarbonisation Fund, and $41.8 million for leasing
low-emissions vehicles
· $19.7 million to support the
Government’s policy response to the Climate Change
Commission’s final advice
· Commitment to recycle
future Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) revenue to achieve
more emissions reductions from Budget 2022
Budget 2021
provides the foundation for lasting climate action and will
support the deployment of low-carbon technologies and the
creation of new jobs and opportunities that will also
support the economic recovery.
Thursday, 20 May 2021, 3:43 pm
Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce (The Chamber)
Chief Executive Leeann Watson says today’s Budget 2021
announcement has largely overlooked the role of business in
the country’s economic recovery.
Finance Minister
Grant Robertson outlined his fourth Budget today, which
focused on the three pillars of child poverty, affordable
housing and climate change.
Ms Watson says: Rather
than taking a balanced approach within this Budget on
societal issues and the economic recovery and rebuild, it
feels like the Government has taken an either/or approach.
In order to focus on some of the significant issues we face
in New Zealand, such as around child poverty, affordable