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