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December 10, 2024
Green Party focuses on Māori in new emissions plan
Gideon Porter
Posted On December 10, 2024
Download AudioThe Green Party says it will consult with all New Zealanders, especially Māori, about its new Emissions Reduction Plan, He Ara Anamata.
The Green Party spokesperson for Māori Development, Huhana Lyndon, says that unless emissions reductions are genuinely addressed, Māori development will suffer.
“For iwi-Māori, we’re on the front line of climate change. We have whenua at risk, we have marae at risk – and our plan looks to centre the role of Te Tirirti o Waitangi in the middle of this plan, and listening, and taking the next two years in our hikoi across the motu to work alongside Māori in developing these policies further,” says Lyndon.
Huhana Lyndon says the Greens’ plan will cut five times more carbon emissions by 2030 than the current government targets.
She says even those targets are under threat due to the coalition government’s farmer- and extractive-industry-friendly policies.
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