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	Podcast:		Checkpoint
	Episode:		Government quietly rejects more ambitious climate targets
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:04:55
	Publish Date:		2025-11-21 03:46:00
	Description:		The government has quietly rejected advice to set a much more ambitious long-term target for New Zealand's carbon emissions. The Climate Change Commission wanted the country to aim for net-negative carbon emissions by 2050 - but the government has decided to stick with the current net-zero target. It's hot off the back of another decision last month to weaken New Zealand's methane target. Climate change reporter Kate Newton spoke to Lisa Owen.
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