'At the end of this week, submissions close for the draft recommendations of the Climate Change Commission
Here’s just a taste of what the Commission’s plan involves:
• Ban imports of light petrol and diesel vehicles from 2032.
• Cull dairy, sheep and beef numbers by 15% by 2030.
• Reshape cities so that we walk 25% more, cycle 95% more, and take public transport 120% more by 2030.
• Ban all coal generation, regardless of security of supply.
• Ban new natural gas connections.
• Ban gas BBQs.
• Require new and replacement heating systems to be electric or bioenergy, not gas.
Here's the how the Climate Change Commission Chair Dr Rod Carr has put it:
"The transformation that New Zealand will confront in the decade ahead… is going to be on a scale that will rival the transformation from our controlled and regulated economy in the 1970s through to the early 1990s. It will be on a scale of the demilitarisation after the second world war. It will be on a scale equal to getting ourselves out of the great depression of the late 1920s. And I would guess it might rival the sum of all those parts…"
According to the Commission’s own analysis, this plan isn’t even necessary. New Zealand is already on track to meet its “net zero carbon” target using existing tools i.e. the existing Emissions Trading Scheme.'
The Taxpayers Union have put together a template to speed up the submission process to oppose these major changes:
https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/climateSource:
https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/stop_the_ccc
