Jacinda Ardern hails 'historic moment' as New Zealand passes Zero Carbon Bill to help fight climate change.
Proud to announce NZ has just passed historic climate change law to ensure a safe future for our kids and grandkids.
The Bill ensures we are at net zero carbon by 2050 as a country.
This is great: 119 of 120 MPs just voted to pass NZ’s historic Zero Carbon Bill into law.
Some things are too big for politics, and the biggest of them all is climate change. The intent of the Zero Carbon Bill was, is, and always should be to elevate climate change policy beyond petty politics and partisanship, to transcend and transform a problem so wicked and so stuck that we have made virtually no progress on it in the 30 years we have been aware of it, in spite of the very best efforts of many, many good people. Climate change policy has been a political football kicked up and down the field, and frequently into touch, by changes of government and, in fact, changes within governments. This unstable policy environment has prevented progress and sent contradictory signals, which has stymied decisive action until this, the 11th hour and 55th minute before midnight.
We’ve led the world before in nuclear free and votes for women, now we are leading again. 💚