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Jacinda Ardern defends climate change goals after Thunberg scoffs at emergency declaration
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has defended her country’s climate change policies after activist Greta Thunberg suggested the country lacked ambition.
Key points:
- Ms Thunberg tweeted that New Zealand’s “so-called climate emergency declaration” was “of course nothing unique to any nation”
- New Zealand declared a climate emergency on December 2
- Ms Ardern said the declaration was only part of New Zealand’s climate change goals
Ms Ardern said the comments referred only to part of New Zealand’s goals on climate change.
Ms Thunberg took to Twitter on Sunday to say that New Zealand’s “so-called climate emergency declaration” was “of course nothing unique to any nation”.
New Zealand announced earlier this month that it would become carbon…
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