Katja Biedenkopf, Associate Professor, Sustainable Futures research group, KU Leuven, Faculty of Social Sciences;
Kirsten Brosbøl, Parliamentarians for the Global Goals (PFGG);
Kevin Casas-Zamora, Secretary-General of International IDEA;
Martin Chungong, Secretary-General, Inter-Parliamentary Union;
Lise Deshautel, Advisor at Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat;
Satu Hassi, Chair of the Grand Committee, Finnish Parliament;
Sylvia Kotting-Uhl, Chair of the Committee on Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, German Bundestag;
Emilie Lemieux, Deputy Director, Open Parliament and Sustainable Development;
His Excellency
Malini Mehra, CEO, Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE);
Javier Perez, Director, Parlamento 2030 (PMO);
Michael Scoullos, Circle of Mediterranean Parliamentarians for Sustainable Development (COMPSUD);
ACE secretary Phil Saxby said the group is calling for a Government-backed hui on climate change to take place by 2022. “The current representative system of government handles a lot of issues very well, but climate change is one of those issues beyond them. “Some problems are so big, democratic governments struggle to make the tough and unpopular decisions. “There can be this built-in resistance to change. We hesitate, we discuss, we form committees. But we don’t take action when it’s needed.”
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Jacinda Ardern and James Shaw on what the Government will do about the Climate Change Commission s draft plan for slashing New Zealand s emissions.
Friday, 29 January 2021, 7:23 am
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Climate Citizens’ Assembly may be needed to make real
progress on the report of the Climate Change Commission,
says the Aotearoa Climate Emergency (ACE) President Phil
Saxby.
“The Commission aspires to ‘drive climate
action in Aotearoa’ but this can only be done through
public consent,” says Phil Saxby. “While there was
cross-party support for the idea of a Climate Change
Commission (which the UK has had since 2008), that does not
necessarily translate into public support for effective
climate action.”
The Climate Change Commissioner, Dr
Rod Carr, will be presenting plans on 1 February 2021 for
meeting, in stages, the Zero Carbon Act goals of Zero net